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I agree, which is why I emphasized “mostly.” Apple still has an ad-wing. They just don’t rely on it almost exclusively for income, like Google. Ads are basically the only profitable arm of Google. Apple has an incredibly strong hardware wing with sales that justify it, allowing them to treat ads secondarily.

As I said at the end, the real issue is that ads shouldn’t be allowed at the OS-level and similarly an OS should be neutral and not collecting data. It’s there to be used by the user not to be dictated how the user uses by the company, as it is increasingly becoming.

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