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I think Apple is supposedly meant to be more respectful of privacy, which to be fair I haven't heard of much scandal around user data from apple, they have other issues though
They had an Ad network. I'm not sure how that's supposed to "respect your privacy". They're very good at marketing, I'll give them that.
Didn't know about that. I don't use any apple stuff and know nothing about how they operate except what I hear online
Well... Whenever that statement is said, there is a pretty significant caveat: the data collection done by apple itself is ignored.