At the moment I am thinking about getting a new phone in the foreseeable future. I was long time using android, but switched to iOS 5 years ago because of the longer update period. Now also some android devices offer a longer update support of about 5 years. Now I am thinking about switching back to android.

But i am wondering: is there any big difference from a privacy perspective between iOS and android? I know you can go for custom roms on android that are focused on privacy which i also used in the past, but i am not planning on doing this in the future. So it would come down to stock android vs stock iOS. Any advice there or is all lost anyway?

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    1 year ago

    So hoping apple is not selling my data, because they make enough money with their hardware sales?

    This is at least a big difference in the business models of the two companies. Thanks for the input!

    What I struggle a little to understand: How does the add business of google affect my privacy? Is not google also collecting the data for internal use only? If they would sell the data, everybody could also target adds like they do. As I understand it they sell add placement and allow the buyer to target a specific group of people, but without selling the data they used to create the profiles. Or am I mixing something up?

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      1 year ago

      So hoping apple is not selling my data, because they make enough money with their hardware sales?

      More or less, yes. Because they don’t need the money.

      How does the add business of google affect my privacy?

      Google’s whole business model is selling your private data. Or which product did you buy from them?