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Honestly, I use iOS purely as anti-Facebook guardrails

I trust there's granular permissions so that Zuckerberg can't scrape contacts

I understand there's corruption, and that annoys me. I wish Apple remained pure. But you still have to do this. Zuck is malicious as hell and we need sandboxes



This is also very easy to do on Android. IOS devices are not magic in their ability to block Facebook tracking.


Perhaps, though Apple outright revoked FB's certificate after the Onavo nonsense, that counts for something


Yeah and why did they do that?

People think its because Apple are looking after you.

In reality its because it allowed Facebook to target Ads at Apple users. Something Apple fiercly guards the privilage of doing only for itself.


I thought it was because FB was wildly abusing its privileges, it would not be the first time


Yep, thats exactly what Apple wants you to think.

They spun the whole thing to turn it into a Facebook is the bad guy story, when in reality what they did was eliminate a competitor from their platform without any backlash.

Very clever.




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