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Their privacy commitments align with their business, not their morals. They don't want an open internet primarily funded by advertising, so they make harder for advertising companies to track their users. What they want is an internet silod into apps you get from their app store, that are funded buy subscriptions and IAPs that they get a 30% cut from.


I like this comment because of its brutal honesty.

“They don’t want <bad thing> so they choose <equally bad thing good for their revenue>”


We can have both, because they cannot kill the web. We can enjoy better privacy in the OS, the open Web, and better controls for the applications that should not be a website (which is still quite a lot of them).


Then you can’t have trillion dollar monopolies with billionaire owners funding fascist regimes.


I think I can live without that, to be honest.




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