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1957 points apokryptein | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.289s | source
1. xyst ◴[] No.42911264[source]
Apple’s “privacy protections” are nothing more than marketing.

“Ask app not to track” is a wash and privacy theater at best. One of the reasons I still run ad blocking on _all_ websites and at the network layer. Sorry “content creators” but you need to get your revenue from elsewhere (ie, sponsored content).

Now I want a phone that scrambles all of this data on a per app (or phone) basis.

Malicious app wants this data? Sure you can have it. But you will get randomized values for every bit of information — resolution, lat/lon, brightness, battery level (user can set range of 90-100%), ….