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Thanks. I didn't see that. Why exactly do iPhones send data to Google servers? Ads on apps/websites?



Section F, page 4 has a summary:

f. While using an iOS device, if a user decides to forgo the use of any Google product (i.e. no Android, no Chrome, no Google applications), and visits only non-Google webpages, the number of times data is communicated to Google servers still remains surprisingly high. This communication is driven purely by advertiser/publisher services. The number of times such Google services are called from an iOS device is similar to an Android device. In this experiment, the total magnitude of data communicated to Google servers from an iOS device is found to be approximately half of that from the Android device.


From the article, I gather that the traffic is for google ads as you browse the web (AdSense).


Don’t forget Google Analytics, Google Fonts and Google AMP?


iPhone uses Google as built-in search engine in Safari, thus indirectly compromising data privacy. And Apple is reported to get billions from Google for this https://community.e.foundation/t/google-could-be-paying-appl...


Google is "built-in" as far as it's the default. It is changeable and can also be set to Yahoo, Bing, or DuckDuckGo, as well as Google.




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