I don’t agree. I think if the iPhone was open we’d see numerous ad-blocking efforts that would have made facebook’s data siphoning impossible long ago. In my subjective experience, it feels like these companies have more room to do evil things precisely because we the users have no means to fight it in a walled garden, whereas on open computing systems the community (you included) has much more freedom to prevent these sorts of abusive practices.
> I think if the iPhone was open we’d see numerous ad-blocking efforts that would have made facebook’s data siphoning impossible long ago.
Or it would lead to a bunch of apps which instead of blocking Facebook would either siphon all that data or display their own adverts. Scammers would be happy to have such powers. Thank you very much but I like trusting that only I can use my banking app on my phone.
