We’ll just add this to the long list of privacy and security features that Apple has implemented for not necessarily principled reasons. I’ll see you in the top HN comment next time they come out with another one.
As it is, I'd like to encourage what feels like the only large corporate entity that cares even a little about users' privacy.
If there was even a single other large consumer company with a slightly better record on privacy than Apple, your view would be more understandable. As it is, at every turn industry after industry is getting infected with the "extract value through users' data" disease. Apple seems to be resisting that trend at least for now.
Sorry I though my sarcasm was obvious there. I was more commenting about how predictable and consistent it is that any time Apple does anything that’s pro-privacy/security/consumer, the top comment in the HN thread is without fail ‘yeah but Apple doesn’t actually care about any of that, this is just part of a conspiracy to promote their business interests’.
Aside from how remarkably consistent HN is at reproducing this, the funniest part to me is the sheer volume of things it has been said about (and then voted to the top of HN threads).
