Unlimited storage for photos in iCloud

1 - this is a user to user forum and apple is not here

2 - no - there is no unlimited iCloud storage plan - the currently largest available plan is 2 TB for $120.0 pear year -- Buy more iCloud storage - Apple Support

LN

yes

That has been well researched and documented by third party privacy organizations - on the other hand the same firms have proven that Google and Amazon are data mining their customers even including listening to their homes with their "intelligent" devices

You believe what you want and take what ever actions that requires but the facts say that Google and Amazon abuse their customers privacy and Apple protects their customers privacy

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again the difference is giant

Google admits it and many. many. many independent parties have confirmed that they do collect and sell your data - you can see it yourself if you do a google search for some product all of a sudden your future searched will start including ads for tha tproduct

Apple denies it and many third parties have confirmed that they do not collect and sell your data

Other than that there is no difference

again

You believe what you want and take what ever actions that requires but the facts say that Google and Amazon abuse their customers privacy and Apple protects their customers privacy

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DavyJohnes wrote:

Thanks for your reply. I do not want to convince you. I just want to understand how it works and why in this way. Your example about Google search is not good example. I think every search engine in the world (google, bing, yahoo...) stores history of your searches and uses it to show you more relevant ad.

Then you might be interested in duckduckgo.com. They don't track you.

I think if Apple were have their own search engine, they would use this data in absolutely same way.

Of course they do not and the facts say they do not date mine your information and sell it and that Google and Amazon do

for the third (and last) time

again

You believe what you want and take what ever actions that requires but the facts say that Google and Amazon abuse their customers privacy and Apple protects their customers privacy

LN

I, of course, do use Duck Duck go - but that is not the point - the point is that Apple has been proven not to data mine your data including iCloud and Google has been proven to do so including Google search and Google photos -

and you can count on Terence's statement being true

Always remember: if you're not paying for the product, then you are the product. You may not be paying cash for Google Photos but you are paying in other ways. They're datamining your life.

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LarryHN wrote:

I, of course, do use Duck Duck go - but that is not the point - the point is that Apple has been proven not to data mine your data including iCloud and Google has been proven to do so including Google search and Google photos -

and you can count on Terence's statement being true

Always remember: if you're not paying for the product, then you are the product. You may not be paying cash for Google Photos but you are paying in other ways. They're datamining your life.

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My referral was in direct response to the OP's statement that all search engines datamine. That is all. I concur with everything you and Terrance have said so far.

The OPs is not looking for help - they just want to argue up to actually saying that if Apple had a product which they do not (a search engine) that is would do data mining - crazy talk like that can not be reasoned with -

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LarryHN wrote:

The OPs is not looking for help - they just want to argue up to actually saying that if Apple had a product which they do not (a search engine) that is would do data mining - crazy talk like that can not be reasoned with -

LN

It's a grey, snowy Friday. I don't have much to do. But, point taken.

Best of luck.

Always remember: if you're not paying for the product, then you are the product. You may not be paying cash for Google Photos but you are paying in other ways. They're datamining your life.