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And that’s worse for your data than iOS

Obviously the answer applies when you reply no

They use the data for App Store recommendations and for insights

Many open source and privacy respecting services collect your data as well. Many distros or software have some sort of anonymous or pseudonymous data collection

Apple is not great in terms of privacy, but it’s a lot better than stock or mainstream Android when comparing usability and ease of use. Should you go the custom ROM route, then it can be the other way around, but I don’t believe most people criticizing iOS here run a custom ROM that improves their privacy

GrapheneOS helps for example, but you’re still tied to their proprietary Google play services that’s probably full of tracking, unless you’re one of the few that don’t use play services at all

MicroG is probably better for privacy and anonymity. Less secure, but that’s another issue.

Stop dreaming

Tried to, but they block some vpn IPs and ne some mail domains, notably mail aliases

Plus they basically stopped replying to me. Are mail aliases really used as spam? I believe it’s a made up thing

And anyways, when contacting them manually, it should be enough to understand that it’s not automated. It would be so easy to spam register using non flagged IPs and non flagged domains but they’re still rigid about these rules. I hate when services do that.

They take the risks, they have the idea, they have special skills… them getting a significant cut from your work doesn’t seem that bad

Obviously there are always exceptions, there is always a too much

Then make your own company and work by yourself

Unless you can’t

yea but I find that annoying

Sometimes just clicking is counted as a fail.

I click on phishing links just to see how bad the websites are

Yes yes I know about 0days but they're rare

How? It might be a slightly bit worse than Firefox but that’s it

I like the transparency

? Well there are many clients that work great

What a waste of time