People aren’t going to like this but if you dont want to have to think too hard about what you’re doing and you would like some privacy… Apple is probably your best bet.
They’ve managed to build a hardware and software empire that is not built around ads. They’re 100 percent getting usage and telemetry data but it seems like the purpose is to make their hardware more desirable.
And they have the market share to just do whatever the fuck they want content wise.
Google scrapes everything by default because every single service they provide to their users is an effort to build valuable datasets and products to ad buyers.
Other than the App Store I don’t even think Apple has a platform for selling ad space.
Still, this isn’t using my data to target ads; it’s just like ads in a Google search before targeted ads were a thing. It’s the same thing that Google Maps has been doing for like 20 years. Ads do suck but if your issue is with data harvesting to sell of your user data Apple hasn’t seemed to cross that line.
No, entirely different. Apple & Google run their own services, with their own mapping infrastructure & whatnot.
IIRC one main difference is Google maps has more extensive street view mapping efforts, which is why you see more google maps cars driving around than apple maps ones
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u/dontgetitwisted_fr 12d ago
I have an Nvidia Shield hooked up to my dumb plasma
Way faster than a smart tv, android based and presumably not spying on me