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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Why don’t you like Apple? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 5 months ago by Betawhat@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Real question. I would like to know what drives you to hate Apple? (In terms of privacy of course because in terms of price it’s another story).

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[–] panicnow@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I’m not an Apple apologist, but I feel there are some things Apple does that are privacy focused.

The ability to E2EE encrypt iCloud is a very simple privacy feature that is accessible to the technical and non-technical alike.
Private relay provides a double VPN architecture that doesn’t cause constant captcha hell and again just works for non-technical people.
Hide my email, while not being perfect, is a pretty straightforward method to make throwaway email addresses.

The things I hate about Apple are generally not privacy related.

They are a mega-corporation that stifles innovation
They don’t allow other browsers
They are puritanical about what is allowed in the App store