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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

More like

Microsoft ... I make billions spying
Google .... I make billions spying
Apple .... I make billions spying

Linux .... you guys make money spying?

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Linux .... you guys make money ~~spying~~?

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

apple doesnt make billions spying. facebook and amazon do of course too.

[–] hangonasecond@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Apple made 4 billion in 2023 from selling advertisements on their devices. Sure, it's only ~1% of Google's ad business buts still technically billions

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That’s not the same as spying. Apple famously doesn’t hand over user data to ad companies.

[–] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

They are themselves an ad company though.

[–] Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago

Yes, they do. They're just better at pretending they don't.

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Facebook doesn't need to spy, the users give it up willingly.

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They also spy, because just a few billion isn't enough

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 3 points 1 month ago

This is the correct answer. Facebook has third-party scripts all over the internet. I wish people would understand this — just because you’re not a Facebook user doesn’t mean Facebook (or anyone else) doesn’t track you.

I’m not sure about Facebook but tons of trackers are in apps too so the typical “use an adblocker” grumble isn’t even accurate either.