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From my perspective it seems like Apple keeps releasing new privacy features and Android keeps being forced to catch up. What are the major privacy enhancements that Google has put out first?
Android blocked background clipboard access in 2019.
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Homebrew software and hacks aren't feasible solutions for the general population. You can't expect a tech-illiterate person to put up with all of that to protect their right to privacy. Like it or not, solutions like Apples' are much more efficient at protecting 1 billion (exaggeration) people at once.
Not just illiterate. How many people here have the time or desire to inspect every app they use? It's a ridiculous proposition. We all have better things to do.
The answer is that if it's open then multiple people with differing interests, such as competitors, or even independent organisations such as non-profit auditors, can check the code.
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In order to know when you should enable the paste option. It can be an elegant design choice, but also a design choice that appears to be or is an abuse of privacy.
> It can be an elegant design choice, but also a design choice that appears to be or is an abuse of privacy. For decades, all programs running on your computer had access to the clipboard. A primary intended purpose of the clipboard is precisely to share information between different programs. Maybe it is in fact a security issue that should be rethought, but calling it an abuse of privacy seems extreme.
Absolutely not, this was a terrible decision to begin with. Users copy sensitive things to the clipboard all the time.
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I'm probably going to get downvoted to hell for saying this (again) but this still doesn't solve the problem of whether Apple themselves are abusing your privacy. Also, the closed-source OS means it's impossible to see what things are doing under the hood, or modify the behavior of the OS itself to be more privacy friendly. For example, on Apple if you aren't happy with an app snooping on your IMU data, you're out of…
I hate how our options are "Choose apple and blindly trust them" or "Chose android an see in the open that your data is being abused"
It seems like a ton of apps are abusing this feature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRSWdtoUAjo I categorize this as another reason why "just trust us," just isn't acceptable enough when it comes to data privacy and ownership. Companies just cannot be trusted to treat their users' data with respect given the option of: profit or privacy. (sourced from reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/hejb9i/ios14_cat…
People love to hate on Apple but the fact is, they continue to release features to better showcase or restrict developers that abuse your privacy. The "walled garden" also ensures they apply a ton of checks to apps to better restrict abuses. Sometimes it's overly sensitive and bad things happen, but in general it's awesome that over time it becomes harder and harder to get away with apps blatantly spying on you.
Coming from GNU/Linux where most things are open and community maintained it’s definitely a step backwards.
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Android is a spyware operating system filled with first party spyware apps developed by Google.
As opposed to apple which isn't because... apple says so.
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> Is it that much to ask that you find the least offensive way to serve your user? Up until now there’s been no way the user has been offended because they haven’t known it’s happening. So there’s no real incentive to do it when you focus on a text field vs anything else. And more broadly, there isn’t a downside if you use the API honestly: e.g. to check for a numeric code that matches whatever regex for one of your…
"The OS snitching on us and then annoying the user" is an interesting definition of "offensive", but definitely not the one I meant. Let me put it another way: if you put the appropriate amount of effort into asking "what's the robust, minimally invasive, least-likely to be misinterpreted and/or abused, way for me to accomplish this?" you are likely to create a better product and less likely to have something like th…
"Is it that much to ask that you find the least offensive way to serve your user?"
So, suppose UPS is not doing anything that you've just described. Say they are regexing for UPS numbers only. How would that be considered offensive?
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We need an answer from TikTok not Apollo.
Of course. The point is there are legit reasons for this to happen.
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I'm probably going to get downvoted to hell for saying this (again) but this still doesn't solve the problem of whether Apple themselves are abusing your privacy. Also, the closed-source OS means it's impossible to see what things are doing under the hood, or modify the behavior of the OS itself to be more privacy friendly. For example, on Apple if you aren't happy with an app snooping on your IMU data, you're out of…
Homebrew software and hacks aren't feasible solutions for the general population. You can't expect a tech-illiterate person to put up with all of that to protect their right to privacy. Like it or not, solutions like Apples' are much more efficient at protecting 1 billion (exaggeration) people at once.