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facebook operates tbe same way you say apple does.


They do now but only because they leaked a bunch of individual user data models in the past. Apple has always operated this way so there's nothing for someone to tie together. Facebook's position is basically useless when someone can recreate user data models for anyone that was on FB before the policy change.


and what about Google, never heard of any leaks from Google/Alphabet.


Google is currently in a lawsuit brought by several states in the US for tracking users without their consent because they continued to track users after people explicitly denied/disabled that tracking. While I did say "leak" in my original response related to Facebook, I think arguing that is a little pedantic since my point was that Google/Meta have a history that Apple does not. Google's history wasn't necessarily with leaking data but moreso collecting and selling data that they told users they weren't collecting/selling.


What data did they sell?




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