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  • If you use Google Chrome on your Mac, update it right now

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    LOL 

    It’s Google hate day.

    1.  I use Google search, there is nothing else close
    2.  I use Google Maps, Apple’s getting better but they’re still 2nd best
    3. I use Google Mail, it’s my own domain, I get zero ads (that I haven’t signed up for)

    OK technically I get ads, but I don’t see them because they go directly to my Junk folder.

    If Google is using my info for ads, I don’t see them because of the ad blocker.  Actually, Apple is the cause of my problem with auto play (ads) videos.  There is no way to stop the auto play in Safari iOS.  I suspect Google payed Apple off...

    Who I won’t do business with is Facebook...

    Give Patrick Berlinquette’s excellent essay about how Go-ogle tracks your personal information a read. I’ve been reading tech news for a couple of decades now, and he is the only one I’ve seen who’s fleshed out the euphemism “monetizing users’ data” in simple, clear language. 

    https://medium.com/s/story/the-complete-unauthorized-checklist-of-how-google-tracks-you-3c3abc10781d
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  • Apple's shutdown of Facebook's internal apps was a light punishment for a repeat offender

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    mike54 said:
    regurgitatedcoprolite said:
    I wish Apple would go after Goophabet in a similar, if not more assertive, manner. 

    What follows is the best description of how Goophabet works I’ve ever read. Patrick Berlinquette fleshes out what “monetizing users’ data” in simple and clear language. Why is this not all over the Internet?!

    https://medium.com/s/story/the-complete-unauthorized-checklist-of-how-google-tracks-you-3c3abc10781d
    Thanks for the links. Very Google.
    Google is in fact worse than Facebook.
    You’re welcome. I agree — Google is worse than FB, but they’re both horrible. I don’t do FB, and I avoid anything Google-related at all costs, including use DDG for search. We need to educate people how these evil companies work. 
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  • Apple's shutdown of Facebook's internal apps was a light punishment for a repeat offender

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    I wish Apple would go after Goophabet in a similar, if not more assertive, manner. 

    What follows is the best description of how Goophabet works I’ve ever read. Patrick Berlinquette fleshes out what “monetizing users’ data” in simple and clear language. Why is this not all over the Internet?!

    https://medium.com/s/story/the-complete-unauthorized-checklist-of-how-google-tracks-you-3c3abc10781d
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  • Apple in 2019 and the case of the expensive iPhone

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    DAalseth said:
    and a weakening economy where nobody can afford to buy its expensive products anymore

    You addressed this in relation to China, but I think you've missed the bigger picture.
    China is not the only place where a recession, possibly a deep one, is looking more likely. Apple has a great line of products for when times are good, but when the economy goes sour-as is predicted, when companies are slashing workers-asGM and Ford and others have already started doing, when wages are stagnating or declining as they are doing everywhere in the Western World, people have to cut back. Okay Apple could ride out a slowdown in China. But a slowdown lasting several years in China and the rest of Asia, North America, the EU, and everywhere else will point out a big weakness in Apple's pricing. Apple systems and devices may be aspirational, but when times get hard, people will buy cheap or make do. And Apple has nothing in the lower, not bottom but lower, end. They may want a Mercedes, but a Kia will do for the moment. They may want a $1200 iPhone, but their old phone, or an Android will do for the moment. You can hunt for a job on an LG phone or an iPhone 5C as well as you can on an iPhone XS. But in hard times the latter won't leave you enough to buy dinner.

    Yes I am expecting the economy to take a bad turn this year. A very bad turn.

    I don’t recall the crash of 2008 having sent Apple’s fortunes tumbling into the dirt, but anything is possible. Apple has been criticized for decades about their pricing, but plenty of people like me find Apple products superior, and we pay for that. 

    I love how Daniel goes straight at the so-called journalists out there, like Gurman, Joanna Stern, and the putzes at the Verge. They do whatever they can to paint Apple in its worst light and do the exact opposite with Android, Google, Samsung, et al. They are propagandists, pure and simple.


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  • Android collects nearly 10 times more user data than Apple's iOS

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    magman1979 said:
    THIS, is just one of the MANY reasons I stay away from that cesspool of BS known as Alphabet Inc, formerly only known as Google... And it is also why I do not have ANY Google apps on my mobile devices, do not use ANY Google services, and make every active attempt to block any and all things Google with ad-blockers on EVERYTHING!
    I prefer to call them Goophabet. After all, their renaming scheme was nothing but a shell game. 

    As for the rest of your comment, I’m with you. I avoid Goophabet and use a good tracker blocker — Better by indie. 
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