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Apple should simply put it into their contract, that whoever tries to bypass the no tracking request by any means gets kicked out of the AppStore.

Trying to plug one hole after another is a never ending battle; this is better solved by contract law and massive punitive fees as well as AppStore bans.

The most intrusive form of “fingerprinting” is that ever more apps require registration with the phone number “to recover and verify the account” “for your security” etc.

There’s a whole slew of apps I stopped using after they started asking for the phone number.
When my financial institution asks for it, that’s OK, but not some sort of social media app.

Can you guys finally publish build numbers along with the news?

e.g. my AppleTV has the beta profile installed, but doesn’t find an update. Maybe it did automatically update, maybe the servers have a lag. 

Great! The practice of removing customers complaints must stop, so I hope the court sets an example.

This isn’t the only time Apple did this:

When switching to “environmentally friendly” plastic on their cables, which are now known to degrade where the plastic gets in contact with sweat and finger grease (first discoloration, then it gets gooey, and then it simply peels off), Apple uses a similar tactic:

You try to have the cable exchanged under warranty, when it’s in the discolored or gooey state, they refuse because “it’s only cosmetic”. After it’s peeled off, frayed, or eventually, they claim it’s the result of misuse. If then you argue it’s an issue with the product, they claim it’s not known and warranty claim statistics show nothing unusual.

Of course, how could the statistics show a pattern given that attempts at getting a warranty exchange are denied? 

Apple denies there’s a problem with the insulation material, and thus denies warranty exchanges, ans then uses the lack of warranty exchanges to argue there’s no issue with the insulation. It’s circular reasoning at it’s best.

But it’s provable that it’s a product issue. I have old Apple cables that still used PVC or something, and they are fine; and I have new cables, used just a few times, that degrade just not being used at all. So this is clearly a materials issue, not a use issue, unless Apple wants to make the case users should wear gloves while handling their cables, or wipe off any finger residue after every touch of the cables.

Frankly, that’s where Apple really should have been hit with a class action suit a long time ago.

It’s another one of Apple’s “green” policies that isn’t green: while the material may be “green”, going through multiple cables in the time a single “non-green” cable would have lasted, is certainly the bigger waste of resources, and less green.

Disgusting greenwashing effort! Environmentally sound and sustainable energy production is more than just measuring CO2 output.

These batteries are responsible for the destruction of a unique and sensitive ecosystem, destroying the livelihoods of indigenous people, and are hugely resource intensive for the energy they provide.

Solar panels by themselves have a single digit EROI, by the time batteries and charging/discharging losses are factored in, it looks even worse.

If Apple weren’t concerned with catering to the brainwashed “woke”, but would run the actual numbers, they would pursue nuclear power like Gates, and listen to people like Shellenberger…

https://youtu.be/ciStnd9Y2ak