> Facebook is scared, and they should be.
On the one hand, yes.
On the other hand, I don't think it's a healthy situation if companies need to own the entire hardware platform to be safe from another company's whims.
On the one hand, yes.
On the other hand, I don't think it's a healthy situation if companies need to own the entire hardware platform to be safe from another company's whims.
What about users? What do I need to own to be safe from the whims of a company like Facebook?
Also, you don't have to audit apps yourself if there's an entire community of volunteers doing it for you, and perhaps even writing alternative FOSS apps.
The web browser sandbox was created to solve lots of problems with security of executables, it didn't solve all of them but it did make content by third parties more secure.
Granted the web probably tracks you as much as mobile, but it will need permission to use your camera/mic/etc and you can more easily see what is being tracked, at least the scripts and states.
All Apple is doing it creating a similar security sandbox to the web and they should.
It's either privacy or not being parented. Perhaps you don't care but many people think it's pretty ridiculous.
Didn’t OpenSSL with Heartbleed show that the “many eyes” argument for FOSS doesn’t hold water?
It’s much improved since then though. Huge portions audited and rewritten.
Thats fine if you trust Apple to do that. All you'd have to do is continue to only use the Apple app store.
The issue is when you want to take away my right to install different app stores.
Librem and Purism sound interesting, but without apple and ios there would be literally no hope in getting away from the toxic business model the ad-tech giants are shoving down our throats.
Maybe we (as humans) shouldn't have tried to over-optimize everything and squeeze every bit of whatever we wanted out from something.
Edit: Have people not seen Austin Powers? Do I need to add the /s?
Then, after a random time, it gets back to 0 and gets a small or a big bump depending on support, converting my comment to a small battleground which is kinda amusing. :D
Apple is making a choice, and I support it and will gladly move back to buying apple products if it means they are willing to fight facebook and google over user privacy.
In a perfect world we'd have regulation (such as the GDPR, but with actual enforcement) that would prevent such nefarious activities.
We're not in a perfect world, so a company who owns the hardware and whose incentives happen to align with their customers' privacy steps in.
They don't really align so well, see IDFA. Yes, you can opt-out, but there's no reason Apple couldn't change that in the future if shareholders want that.
That's the risk you take working on someone else's platform. If you don't like it, start your own or conform to the new, privacy-enhancing features.