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raw_anon_1111last Friday at 2:24 PM3 repliesview on HN

Let’s see where to start?

1. Email address - you have to use an email address to have an Apple account. How are they not going to have your email?

2. Devices registered - you mean when you log into your device, they keep track of your logged in devices!

3. Transaction history - they keep track of what you bought from them!

Must I continue? Every single piece of data that you named is required to do business with them.


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orwinlast Friday at 3:05 PM

Browsing history? Search history? Age?

Also 'product interaction' is an euphemism to say "if you're sick, we'll sell this information for around 80€" (I think it's close to 200$ for Americans but I don't have any contact in this industry overseas). If you have a cancer and suddenly you see an increase in ads for pseudo-medicine and other scams whose only goal is to extract all the money you have left, and if lucky, your famil's money too, that's from 'product interaction'.

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ameliuslast Saturday at 11:20 AM

It should not be necessary to be tied to the vendor after you have bought the product.

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AshamedCaptainlast Friday at 2:56 PM

Every series you've ever watched with the Apple TV -- of course, they keep track of what you watched with them!

(/s).

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