There are many enemies of privacy. There are politicians claiming the (at best) misguided pretense of “protecting the children,” intellig…

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    8 months ago

    I don’t understand, if so many people care about privacy how come no one in the phone/car etc market are able to make good product which cater to these needs?

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      8 months ago

      There’s no money in privacy.

      Harvesting and selling personal information is practically a continual source of funds with little to no cost. Why spend time and money developing a product with all the data harvesting elements stripped out to appeals to maybe 5-10% of the market?

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        8 months ago

        Just sounds to me like excuses made by a marketing department that doesn’t know how to do its job. People just don’t know they want more privacy, largely because they don’t realize the extent to which they currently have none and how easy it would be to claw some of it back.

        Apple is flexing about privacy (rightly or wrongly) and has rolled out a lot of privacy/transparency features. Clearly they see value there. Firefox has seen growing adoption with the EU breaking apple’s walled garden. Clearly people care to some extent and with marketing/education more can care.