Cory Doctorow
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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I think it was 2021.
They updated iOS, which is the operating system for like phones and watches and tablets.
And they gave you a single tick box and you ticked it and then Facebook couldn't spy on you anymore in the apps.
96% of iOS users ticked that box.
The other 4% were either drunk or Facebook employees or drunk Facebook employees, which makes a lot of sense because if I worked at Facebook, I would always be drunk.
So you get it, right?
Like this is clearly – like neoliberal economists, the same ones who say monopolies are efficient, they like to talk about revealed preferences.
Okay.
Where if you do one thing but say another thing, the thing you're doing matters more than what you're saying.
You have a revealed preference.
This is like a – I think you can only believe if you incur the kind of neurological injury you get from taking an economics degree, which makes you incapable of like perceiving or reasoning about power.
You see someone who's like sold a kidney to make the rent.
You go, look at that person with the revealed preference for one kidney.
Yeah.
So here's the thing.
When you give people a real choice, they can reveal a preference because Facebook would have set up until that moment.
People use Facebook, so they don't want their privacy.
So here's the kicker.
When Apple was turning this on for Facebook, they were also turning on their own surveillance system for the iPhone that gathers all the data Facebook used to gather in order to target ads to you because they have a competing ad broker.
And there's no way to opt out of that.
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