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Apple Announces iOS 18 Accessibility Features, Including Eye Tracking (www.macrumors.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/apple_enthusiast

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The concern here is them surreptitiously enabling the feature for all sorts of creepy stuff. Including, but certainly not limited to, ads, user tracking and the like.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If it were Google, sure. Apple doesn't sell ads, they're not an ad company.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

They’re not but they do.

In fact, here is John Gruber’s skeptical take on Apple selling ads.

While they do claim to hold user privacy as high priority, there’s reason to be skeptical.