This is after forcing login to a store account:

At least they don’t hide in their ToS that:

“l agree to let Walmart monitor my use of Walmart WiFi, including to:

  • Determine my presence in Walmart stores
  • Associate information about me with my Walmart account
  • Improve products and services
  • Gather market insights about my in-store purchases and activities”

But that’s not enough, they need to monitor your internet activity further too.

For further reading, some greatest hits (the section headers on Wiki’s Criticism of Walmart):

  • Local communities
  • Allegations of predatory pricing and supplier issues
  • Labor relations
  • Poorly run and understaffed stores
  • No AEDs in stores (automated external defibrillators)
  • Imports and globalization
  • Product selection
  • Taxes
  • Animal welfare
  • Midtown Walmart
  • Opioids settlement
    • hperrin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      396·
      4 months ago

      Do you think the advertising company’s phone is more private?

      Google doesn’t make money when you buy a Samsung Galaxy. Google tracks everything you do on your Galaxy. They then take this data and sell targeted advertisement at you. Google makes money when they sell you to advertisers.

      Apple makes money when you buy an iPhone.

      • takeda@lemmy.worldEnglish
        102·
        4 months ago

        Apple appears to be double dipping. I don’t use apple products beyond a MacBook. Why for example the laptop has a unique advertiser id (which looks like it can’t even be disabled in newer os versions)?

        • mrvictory1@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          4 months ago

          All OS have advertising ID. Windows does, macOS does (TIL from you), Android and iOS do. Linux doesn’t for obvious reasons.

        • hperrin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          4 months ago

          A lot of the things stored in iCloud are end to end encrypted. That includes all of your messages and attachments in iMessage and all of your bookmarks in Safari. Apple simply can’t use those things to advertise at you.

          As far as other targeted advertising, Apple doesn’t track you across apps. In other words, searching for something in the App Store won’t result in different ads in Apple News. And doing anything in any third party app won’t affect any targeted ads in any Apple app. (https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/control-how-apple-delivers-advertising-to-you-iphf60a6a256/ios)

          You will still see targeted ads on iOS in third party apps, because Google still tracks you in an app if it uses AdMob.

      • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        61·
        4 months ago

        At least on the advertising company’s phone, I have the freedom to install a different, more privacy respecting OS like GrapheneOS.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
      6·
      4 months ago

      Bruh, can we not do the whole teasing people who prefer one brand’s proprietary OS & interface over another?

    • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      115·
      4 months ago

      That is true of Android as well.

      And remember that while iOS is built by a tech company first and foremost, Android is built by an advertisement company first and foremost.

      I have tried both, and only Android gives me the feeling that someone is constantly looking over my shoulder.

      I know Apple does also, but I don’t get the same feeling.

        • Ptsf@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          4 months ago

          You can literally sniff the fucking traffic and see that’s not true. You understand there are laws of physics at play here and the devices can’t sneak data/etc past them, right? Default android devices send significantly more data back to home base than a defaultly configured iOS device.

      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
        4·
        4 months ago

        I recently acquired a used iPad and its my first real iOS experience in a decade, and I have to say I have similar feelings from using it.

        Many privacy controls are set to their tightest settings by default, many things require the app to ask the user before intruding then give you clear indication if and when they are intruding, and most controls that I might want to change aren’t buried 4 layers deep in the settings.

        However, I can’t install uBlock Origin on Firefox (yet?) and there’s quite a few minor customizations I’d really like to change but can’t. And honestly Android’s openness to sideloading sometimes lets me do things like load an old paid game that hasn’t been updated in several years and sometimes does or doesn’t work depending on the Android version and specifics of the vendor’s implementation, or snag random stuff off Githubor Itch if I really want to.

      • mrvictory1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        only Android gives me the feeling that someone is constantly looking over my shoulder.

        Aurora Store instead of Play Store, Firefox with UbO and Adguard DNS. I feel Android does look over my shoulder (why do I need to use ADB to disable uninstallable apps or install pre Android 6 apps?!) but not in the context of privacy. I don’t know how having GMS enabled w/o being signed in affects being tracked.

    • lemmingnosis@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      62·
      4 months ago

      How do ya compare incentives of Apple/Cloudflare & the big box store in terms of data privacy?

    • mondoman712@lemmy.mlEnglish
      32·
      4 months ago

      I’m surprised by how many people here buy into Apple’s marketing. I thought people on Lemmy would be more aware.