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'"Walmartwifi" isn't compatible with iCloud Private Relay' | Store demands privacy sacrifice to use internet in their cavernous dead zone of a building (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by lemmingnosis to c/assholedesign

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This is after forcing login to a store account:

At least they don’t hide in their ToS that:

“l agree to let Walmart monitor my use of Walmart WiFi, including to:

Determine my presence in Walmart stores
Associate information about me with my Walmart account
Improve products and services
Gather market insights about my in-store purchases and activities”

But that’s not enough, they need to monitor your internet activity further too.

For further reading, some greatest hits (the section headers on Wiki’s Criticism of Walmart):

Local communities
Allegations of predatory pricing and supplier issues
Labor relations
Poorly run and understaffed stores
No AEDs in stores (automated external defibrillators)
Imports and globalization
Product selection
Taxes
Animal welfare
Midtown Walmart
Opioids settlement

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[–] hperrin 33 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Do you think the advertising company’s phone is more private?

Google doesn’t make money when you buy a Samsung Galaxy. Google tracks everything you do on your Galaxy. They then take this data and sell targeted advertisement at you. Google makes money when they sell you to advertisers.

Apple makes money when you buy an iPhone.

[–] takeda 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Apple appears to be double dipping. I don't use apple products beyond a MacBook. Why for example the laptop has a unique advertiser id (which looks like it can't even be disabled in newer os versions)?

[–] mrvictory1 5 points 4 months ago

All OS have advertising ID. Windows does, macOS does (TIL from you), Android and iOS do. Linux doesn't for obvious reasons.

[–] hperrin 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

A lot of the things stored in iCloud are end to end encrypted. That includes all of your messages and attachments in iMessage and all of your bookmarks in Safari. Apple simply can’t use those things to advertise at you.

As far as other targeted advertising, Apple doesn’t track you across apps. In other words, searching for something in the App Store won’t result in different ads in Apple News. And doing anything in any third party app won’t affect any targeted ads in any Apple app. (https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/control-how-apple-delivers-advertising-to-you-iphf60a6a256/ios)

You will still see targeted ads on iOS in third party apps, because Google still tracks you in an app if it uses AdMob.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

At least on the advertising company's phone, I have the freedom to install a different, more privacy respecting OS like GrapheneOS.