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> Google, FB, & Microsoft where they both control and sell your data to the highest bidder.

Can we please keep this nonsense to lower quality sites like reddit? I like to pretend hacker news hasn't degraded this far yet.

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While not technically correct "sell your data to the highest bidder" is close enough to what Google and FB are doing, and the distinction is irrelevant for most people.

Please expand, and perhaps explain how Apple is different.

Ad networks are running realtime bidding for ad space already in case you didn't know.

At the very least Google and FB got punished for doing that already in the past

Apple also runs this kind of bidding now: https://searchads.apple.com/best-practices/bidding

If that’s not “selling your data”, we need to be more specific about what we are talking about.

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