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But because Apple is not funded by ads, they don't have the same incentive as Google or Facebook to monetize your data.

That said, it's a matter of time until an Apple CEO looking for a way to juice the quarterly numbers finds a way to put that data to work...

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Already happened. They have search ads for apps; safe to assume they can tie your use of apps into that dataset. Just because their primary business model is hardware and software sales doesn't imply they don't have a hand in ads; the ROI and margins in ads are stupid high. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple_search_ads/s...

Monetizing data is not an evil thing in and of itself. People are so quick to outrage at anything these days.

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