Do advertisers pay Apple for the use of IDFA?
Do I pay Apple for the phone?
You are saying people should pay for stuff OR get their data sold.
Where can I get my free iPhone?
Do advertisers pay Apple for the use of IDFA?
Do I pay Apple for the phone?
You are saying people should pay for stuff OR get their data sold.
Where can I get my free iPhone?
It's not about the price of the phone. It's about the price of the services you get online—everything from Facebook to HackerNews.
Some of these free websites are subsidized by other means (like YCombinator itself). Some are funded by subscription, with a partial paywall that lets you access a portion of their content free. Others are funded by gathering your data and selling it to advertisers.
Stop treating Apple as if they're the ones who should be responsible for everything under the sun, just because they make iPhones (and truckloads of money).
To my knowledge neither Gigabyte or Intel (though TPM etc has other issues) pre-installed ad tracking in my system that I can't remove.
It's entirely about the price of the phone, if the thing I paid for is tracking me for ads.
Whether I use free web services that sell my data on my computer or not is, while interesting, a completely separate issue.