By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/07/2026The grid was useful, until technocarcinization started to push *all* the tech companies into that top right quadrant. 10/ 1200
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/07/2026Apple is no longer the company that protects you from surveillance - they're the company that spies on you, having secretly added a total surveillance system to the iPhone to target ads to you: pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/l... 11/pluralistic.netPluralistic: 14 Nov 2022 Even if you’re paying for the product, you’re still the product – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 2193
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/07/2026Apple can't even claim to protect you from third-party surveillance. Sure, they block Facebook from spying on you, but they have barred ICE Block, an app that tells you if there are ICE chuds hunting in your neighborhood, looking to kidnap you and send you to a concentration camp. 12/ 1193
iplayguitarbad.bsky.social @iplayguitarbad.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I always thought Apple's reputation for protecting us from surveillance was a joke. They've been taking $20B from Google yearly to make Google search default on their devices. That's not a company that cares about our privacy, it's a company that's focus isn't on data collection so they don't care. 2254
