Read the fine print, man. You can opt out but not really. You'll still get fed ads - albeit not as "relevant" or tailored to your tastes or usage and age and height and race and what you read or watch or listen to or how much you make or the thousands of other parameters they store about you in their huge new North Carolina data complex - and your Location will still be reported even after you opt out, unless you turn off Location services and never use it again. The moment you activate it, you'll be spied on again.
So, while opt out means opt out everywhere else on earth, not on iAds, baby. You're theirs for life... or as long as your contract runs. And when your contract runs out, they reserve the option of selling data about you to other marketing and financial firms. Again, read the fine print.
Maybe someday you'll apply for a loan and the bank will refuse, citing some books they don't approve of that you read awhile back on iBooks. Or you have a tendency to watch revolutionary kinds of films. Or because you visited a medical marijuana store way back in '11... they know, because they have your location parameters. Who knows where this could lead? Dream it & it'll happen.
This is definitely big brotherish. Freedom requires constant vigilance.
lol I feel dumber just by reading your post.
btw you have to OPT-IN in order to share your GPS information.
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Read the fine print, man. You can opt out but not really. You'll still get fed ads - albeit not as "relevant" or tailored to your tastes or usage and age and height and race and what you read or watch or listen to or how much you make or the thousands of other parameters they store about you in their huge new North Carolina data complex - and your Location will still be reported even after you opt out, unless you turn off Location services and never use it again. The moment you activate it, you'll be spied on again.
So, while opt out means opt out everywhere else on earth, not on iAds, baby. You're theirs for life... or as long as your contract runs. And when your contract runs out, they reserve the option of selling data about you to other marketing and financial firms. Again, read the fine print.
Maybe someday you'll apply for a loan and the bank will refuse, citing some books they don't approve of that you read awhile back on iBooks. Or you have a tendency to watch revolutionary kinds of films. Or because you visited a medical marijuana store way back in '11... they know, because they have your location parameters. Who knows where this could lead? Dream it & it'll happen.
This is definitely big brotherish. Freedom requires constant vigilance.
lol I feel dumber just by reading your post.
btw you have to OPT-IN in order to share your GPS information.
lol I feel dumber just by reading your post.
Naw, that's just your natural state.
Naw, that's just your natural state.