1sttimeposter

Apple most certainly makes money off of ads. It isn’t a major profit center but according to the following article it is on track to rake in $2B by next year. Also they make a nice cut of sales via app purchases an in-app purchases. They. Definitely want you using your device as regularly as possible to capitalize on that revenue opportunity. Their stance on privacy and security is a marketing angle capitalizing on the fear currently out there as a result of people awakening to how much of the web is monetized (I.e. with ads).

https://searchengineland.com/apple-search-ads-expected-to-ge...

If you want to know why people use Facebook it is for all of the positive it brings, rather than the negative which is portrayed consistently on HN. Check out this FB page where FB accumulates stories that show FB making a meaningful and positive impact on people’s lives.

https://wwww.facebook.com/CommunityVoices/

What about TV addiction, video game addiction, addiction to foods laden with high fructose corn syrup, or an other number of “addictions”? Point here is anything can have a good effect or negative effect. Everyone on HN has an addiction to talking negatively about things people have built or are building. Very rarely is anyone speaking about the good that results from what people are working on. People have and will always gravitate towards staking self worth on social-acceptance regardless of the communication channel. Whether it is their family, friends, classmates, colleagues and interaction happens over IM, email, in school cafeterias, locker rooms, people are looking for social acceptance and depending on how that goes there is a good or bad experience with it. Nothing new here nor does Facebook have anything to do with it. Facebook exposes you to more people and it doesn’t inherently do anything to you either negatively or positively. For every negative article there are hundreds of examples of good that comes from it. (My 2 cents)

Why do we not assume that the site owner has the responsibility to protect how data is intercepted on their site? If said site owner allows their web page user to type their email into a form, a malicious script on the page can still intercept that data. FB assures the transportation of the data to the web page and once the transmission is triggered, up to its delivery, then the onus is on a site owner to govern the data. Furthermore, as an end user you have to be diligent in what you do online. If you come across a site that asks you to type information or log in with FB, you have to determine whether you trust the site enough and that you feel comfortable taking the risk of exchanging your information for the service at hand. Let’s not lose site of reality and remove emotional bias from this conversation.