Can’t say I have done a “full audit,“ but I do consider myself relatively tech savvy and I would say - at least to me - seems Mac is a little more privacy oriented. And despite the fact that they turned everything into a walled garden and don’t love users tinkering too much, they do give you a ton of information and control over your privacy and telemetry. At least relatively speaking when compared to windows, an operating system that makes all of that information far more opaque.
Additionally, Apple is not shoving ads into my operating system or really anywhere besides the App Store, which feels pretty appropriate to me. They don’t seem to sell as much data to third-parties either (I’m sure they have plenty of use internally lol), but I’m not really ready to stand behind that claim necessarily because I have not dug sufficiently into it. It does appear to be the case at least though.
Can’t say I have done a “full audit,“ but I do consider myself relatively tech savvy and I would say - at least to me - seems Mac is a little more privacy oriented. And despite the fact that they turned everything into a walled garden and don’t love users tinkering too much, they do give you a ton of information and control over your privacy and telemetry. At least relatively speaking when compared to windows, an operating system that makes all of that information far more opaque.
Additionally, Apple is not shoving ads into my operating system or really anywhere besides the App Store, which feels pretty appropriate to me. They don’t seem to sell as much data to third-parties either (I’m sure they have plenty of use internally lol), but I’m not really ready to stand behind that claim necessarily because I have not dug sufficiently into it. It does appear to be the case at least though.