> Apple loves harvesting your store interaction data within store apps for commercial use
FTFY.
Please stop spinning that as if Apple were siphoning every single of one's moves everywhere, irrespective of any telemetry setting one has set.
Both the linked piece and the reporter's Twitter thread seem to have taken great care to bury behind clickbait headlines and scary words the fact that this applies only to App Store, Books, Apple TV, and iTunes Store apps, which are all "store" apps (presumably that's where commercial stuff typically happens) that used to outright be webviews (not entirely sure they are 100% native as of today). I don't think anyone would be appalled if a React-based web app would send vast amounts of requests based on user interaction.
So yeah, they should probably not collect as much data as that and probably should have a toggle to nerf such data collection within the store apps (which is not the same as OS/actual app/service telemetry), but the way things keep getting spinned is beyond ridiculous and does not help in improving anything.
FTFY.
Please stop spinning that as if Apple were siphoning every single of one's moves everywhere, irrespective of any telemetry setting one has set.
Both the linked piece and the reporter's Twitter thread seem to have taken great care to bury behind clickbait headlines and scary words the fact that this applies only to App Store, Books, Apple TV, and iTunes Store apps, which are all "store" apps (presumably that's where commercial stuff typically happens) that used to outright be webviews (not entirely sure they are 100% native as of today). I don't think anyone would be appalled if a React-based web app would send vast amounts of requests based on user interaction.
So yeah, they should probably not collect as much data as that and probably should have a toggle to nerf such data collection within the store apps (which is not the same as OS/actual app/service telemetry), but the way things keep getting spinned is beyond ridiculous and does not help in improving anything.