![](https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/56301392-efac-46f0-a672-37655ce2df61.jpeg)
![](https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/a18b0c69-23c9-4b2a-b8e0-3aca0172390d.png)
No. Clicking “ask app not to track” prevents apps from collecting your data. It does not prevent Apple from collecting that same data, which they do.
/r/StarTrek founder and primary steward from 2008-2021
Currently on the board of directors for StarTrek.website
No. Clicking “ask app not to track” prevents apps from collecting your data. It does not prevent Apple from collecting that same data, which they do.
Can you provide any examples of ads someone (maybe you?) received directly due to Apple’s policies and behavior? Totally serious question.
If you use an iPhone and have app tracking transparency enabled then any targeted ads you’re seeing are almost certainly coming from data that Apple has collected from you.
A few years back Apple made a big change to iOS that prevents user data from being sold to data brokers and ran a big ad campaign about how they are the good “privacy option”. But the reason they made the change was not to protect user privacy, but because Apple wanted the money that Facebook was getting from iPhone users. The same data is still being collected and sold, just by Apple now instead of Facebook. That was the crux of Facebook’s big lawsuit against Apple accusing them of anti-competitive practices.
Apple is one of the best Hardware companies out there for not selling your data.
Don’t believe their ads, they are actually one of the worst!
But the threat of Apple turning on its customers isn’t limited to China. While the company has been unwilling to spy on its users on behalf of the US government, it’s proven more than willing to compromise its worldwide users’ privacy to pad its own profits. Remember when Apple let its users opt out of Facebook surveillance with one click? At the very same time, Apple was spinning up its own commercial surveillance program, spying on Ios customers, gathering the very same data as Facebook, and for the very same purpose: to target ads. When it came to its own surveillance, Apple completely ignored its customers’ explicit refusal to consent to spying, spied on them anyway, and lied about it:
Yes, it is frequently misused, but not in this case.
I always laughed when someone called us a “janitor” after we banned them. Like you understand in this analogy you are the trash being taken out, right?
He has to just be riling up the “freeze peach” crowd with that line. He must know that a “users vote” way of selecting mods is always going to be a race to the bottom in terms of diversity and quality as nobody with a unique vision is going to subject themselves to the will of a bunch of reddit-brained people.
When I was part of the Vaxxhappened protest I came to the realization that pretty much all mods of big communities are not “power happy” autocrats, but on the whole surprisingly weak-willed and living in a perpetual fear of getting removed. It was sad, but I have to imagine Reddit Inc is very happy with the arrangement. These people are working 24/7 for free, on one of the many indistinguishable feeds of memes. I was very surprised the API protest happened to the degree it did at all.
idk that’s why I asked
Apologies if you’ve answered this elsewhere but I’m assuming there’s a reason you haven’t bought your own router?
If you’re sharing with other people who don’t have a 4K screen or don’t have the bandwith to stream 4K, it uses a lot of system resources to transcribe 4K content down to something manageable, so some people find it easier to just keep two copies.
how do I manage audio AND ebooks?
You need two versions of Readarr. Yes, that’s just how it is. Just like if you wanted a 4K and non-4K radarr.
Still very cool, though. Thanks!
Where are you seeing a VPS for $1/month that works well as a Jellyfin server for multiple people?
I mean… good typeface design takes a particular type of creative mind, and is also extremely labor intensive. People get masters degrees in typography. A good font is not cheap or easy to produce. It makes sense someone would want to earn money from the effort.
I used to be a mod on /r/StarTrek and everytime we did a fundraiser it was inevitably met with criticisms of some kind. I would usually respond with “That sounds like a great cause too, why don’t you post the receipt (we encouraged users to share recepits) for that instead?” and never once saw it.
You could not force me at gunpoint to go to r/all lol but I see your point. I just like to be more intentional about it.
Oh yeah it works great, I just don’t like how the algo feels like it’s trying to trick me into watching as long as possible. I enjoy the things I subscribe to but I don’t need YouTube to take up any more of my time.
I get it. My Spotify algorithm was exceptionally good at sending me stuff that was basically just “diet everything else in my library”. Hardly anything ever new or challenging. Most of my new interesting music comes to me these days from friends and the radio, and song IDing anything that catches my ear while out and about.
I suppose I do like Spotify auto-playlists for when I need consistent background Muzak or a “chill beats to study to” vibe. But the algo is just too “good” if that makes sense.
I’ve always wondered if people like you existed! Fascinating.
Not criticizing you, just personally I don’t want any recommendation algos in any of my media.
Well said, I never really understood why the people who hate moderation don’t just create their own “free” community, but thinking about it now in the context of your comment it makes sense that a loosely-moderated “community” would struggle to feel like a community in the first place.
Cory Doctorow is uniquely able to cut straight to the heart of the matter. He is the same person who coined the term “enshittification” last year.