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[–] mnemosyne-0000 ago 

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I am Mnemosyne, goddess of memory. I remember so you don't have to.

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[–] nonservator [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

aka Clearly you're not the target audience:

I contend that Cook’s view in this regard is shortsighted and demonstrates that a) Apple underestimates the allure and strength of the Google ecosystem and b) that Apple simply can’t grasp the fact that the privacy tradeoff, for most consumers, is well worth it.

When it comes to user privacy, it’s all about trade-offs. More often than not, consumers are all too glad to give up small slivers of their privacy in exchange for services that they value. After all, credit card companies know where and when you shop, while phone companies know who you call, at what times, and for how long.

Similarly, users who value Google’s free services are seemingly more than willing to give up portions of their privacy in exchange for software that works and works well.

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[–] j_ 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

I think it’s less “not knowing” and more “not thinking”.

At some level anyone with a credit card knows the credit card company has all this data on you, your spending habits, your location (based on where your card is swiped), things you buy in secret online that even your spouse doesn’t know about, etc… but who even thinks of it consciously? And more importantly, even when you do think about it, who is concerned about it? Very few people. The average person is thinking: “The credit card company is a large, faceless entity. What would they do with the knowledge that I’m at Taco Bell at 3am and that I just bought 100 dildos on Amazon?”

I find it very hard for anyone to claim complete, innocent ignorance. Even say, my grandmother, who has no concept of servers or tracking or how anything electronic works beyond using electricity, chooses not to think about where her data goes. It’s not magic. If you put your name into a box on your computer you must fundamentally understand that it goes somewhere, to someone or something. Most people just choose not to think about it. That’s different from ignorance.