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>>pimter+(OP)
what even is the reasoning they have for proposing and implementing this?

>>gooob+05
Allow Apple devices to browse the web with fewer captcha interruptions, etc. and be more trusted as non-bot devices.

>>ezfe+I6
> Allow Apple devices to browse the web with fewer captcha interruptions

In particular, while using a VPN or Tor. So in one sense it’s even a pro-privacy move, insofar as it allows to distinguish a human user on a legit device using a VPN from a bot using a VPN (upon which the server can present a captcha or denial to the latter, but not the former, making it less onerous for average users to use a VPN).

>>FabHK+Li
It's only a pro-privacy move if you completely trust Apple (the mandatory 3rd party approver) both now and in the future to be pro-privacy. The minute their growth slows and the shareholders demand changes, the pro-privacy can go out the window, and they've got the advertisers wet dream ready and waiting, reserved exclusively for them. Corporations are profit-seeking entities by design, and leadership who doesn't act in the best interest of the shareholders (i.e. profit seekers) will be removed and replaced by leadership who does.