I‘m a little shocked rn. I am using fluffychat on ios since my legacy iphone is still working and I dont want to throw it out until its done.
But this happened the first time: I wrote „then I might need to take a taxi“ to someone and an installed taxi app immediately popped up via notifications saying „get off 25% today“ or something.
This freaks me out big time since it could mean every word I write on this phone gets checked by something/someone.
Anyone else? (It was literally the second I wrote the sentence)
Not really. You’re making an allegation with no evidence, then incorrectly comparing it to you proving something you yourself may have done. That wouldn’t work if you were merely claiming someone else ate a sandwich, much less something like this.
An exercise— some taxi company made the app with publicly available software. A lot of Lemmy users seem to be developers and know how the notification system works for iOS. Is it then:
Apple tracks all sentences typed and lets every single app know when something related to its purpose is typed so a notification can be served? And every single app developer in existence has hidden this knowledge?
Apple tracks all sentences typed and lets specific apps know when something related to its purpose is typed? Why would they give this data to a taxi company and not larger companies that drive more profit? If they did give it to taxi companies and up, how do they prevent whistleblowers? Privacy intrusion on this level would be massive. People will leak military secrets to prove a point in video games, but not this?
Apple tracks all sentences typed and only lets this taxi company know when “I need a taxi” is typed? This would be safest because it reduces the chance of a leak. And yet also tremendously risky to give this data to a taxi company, which probably isn’t overly secure, when this information leaking would cost them shareholder-angering amounts of money and poor press.
This conspiracy is moon-landing-is-fake levels of implausible. It would require airtight security and a level of secret keeping that humans are simply not capable of. No disgruntled employee of any company would have leaked this? Apple would risk meteoric reputation damage to slightly drive in app purchases that they’d then get a 30% cut of? Be serious.
I hate defending any corporation but the flat earth level conspiracies I see upvoted on Lemmy— with zero proof, or even waving away the thought of proof!— would be laughed at anywhere else. These takes also delegitimize real criticism because there may yet be something relatively implausible that they are doing, and noise like this muddies the water. Why not discuss the actual unethical things Apple does, of which there are many, instead of making stuff up?
Edit: oops, you did not make the allegation, merely defended it. I’d split this up into two separate criticisms for maximum effectiveness (the other one for the confidently-said zero-proof conspiracy, and this one for the implication that evidence for conspiracies is unnecessary) but no one’s gonna read it anyway so whatever.
I read it….
Well shit, thanks. I used to do this (being long comments) on Reddit but long comments naturally filter out some readers. Which I get, cause sometimes I’m not looking to read a whole thing too, so it never offended me.
People on Lemmy seem to have longer attention spans though, shouldn’t be too surprised. This site has me returning to older habits of thinking through comments and spending almost 20 minutes typing haha, back on the other site I just stopped commenting in the years before the API changes since I’ve never been the type for quippy one liners. So yeah weirdly thanks, odd how it kind of feels nice to have these read again. I obv can’t text monologue irl (cause it’s not text) and I’m one for brevity with text messages
Here are Apple’s most basic promises to developers.
If their stated capabilities don’t sound like a security nightmare for users then you are willfully blind.
Of course you have to make a purchase and sign an NDA to get more specific info on their capabilities. Why? Because it’s a nightmare.
Yes they absolutely talk out both sides of their mouths when it comes to security and it doesn’t take a “genius” to put 2+2 together.
Please quote anything that comes close to OS-level spying for developer benefit. When did it become acceptable to fake source by posting just a link and no context? I read through several of the sections and not a single one indicates you can get significant information outside your own app. Again, I am not claiming Apple is benevolent. I was reasonably clear that they should be criticized for the many unethical things they do engage in.
In fact, none of what you said directly confronts anything I mentioned. I’d need more than vague innuendos to change my stance on what is, again, reputation ending and unprecedented spying for the benefit of small time companies.
Also recall that Apple employees have leaked completely uninteresting things for twitter clout, leading to firings and legal action. You cannot claim with a straight face that employees will leak that but not OS-level spying. They’re bound by the same NDAs but are willing to face jail time to leak information about the next iPhone and not this? Remember that NDAs are not magic documents with 100% effectiveness.
And that’s just Apple employees. Individual developers can leak. A software dev at Google (king of advertising) being laid off for shareholder value can leak.
These conspiracy theories always play to the same desire to feel like the believers and their fellow theorists are the only ones who haven’t had the wool pulled over their eyes by some borderline omnipotent organization moving in the shadows. Only the special few know the truth; though they cannot prove it, they know it to be true. And these all fall apart at the foundation: plausibility. To save time, I won’t respond if you can’t provide direct quotes or real evidence that realistically suggest Apple tracks keyboard strokes to deliver ad opportunities to third party developers— implications and leaps of logic need not apply. This reminds me too much of flat earthers, and while I do enjoy reading this stuff, it’s not productive to either person to engage too much. I wouldn’t want to waste your time. Stay safe out there!
(Feel free to respond with the innuendos anyway though, I will read it for fun. I just won’t respond if there’s no real evidence. For inspiration, think past basic ads and consider the limitless potential for US government or Chinese government spying with real time keystroke tracking, and how that is potentially connected to seasonal Covid rate spikes or military plane flight patterns. Maybe they add to Covid numbers when iOS users type “let’s eat the rich next week” too many times?)
You need tech Jesus to cure your tech blindness.
Nothing a mere mortal such as myself can do.