iPhone Apps Secretly Harvest Data When They Send You Notifications, Researchers Find::Security researchers say apps including Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, Twitter, and countless others collect data in surprising ways.
When we don’t pay we are the product. Conversely, when we do pay we are still the f***ing product.
Capitalism: “why capitalise one thing, when you can capitalise EVERYTHING”
iPhone apps including Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, and X/Twitter are skirting Apple’s privacy rules to collect user data through notifications
Seems it’s the free shit doing what they do best and the thing you paid for needs to plug some loopholes. I can’t imagine Apple’s coordinating if there’s no profit for them…like when native Facebook and Twitter accounts appeared in the iOS settings, hmmmmmmm.
As if the products you pay for don’t do the same fucking thing
I wonder if this is big enough for Apple to snuff it out before WWDC. They have too much money invested into branding around privacy and security. I can’t imagine this type of fingerprinting will remain around for long.
Google does the same thing on android
