You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about, do you?
For your first linked article, from Politico,eu, the progressive wing of the progressive rag of the same leftist rag in this country, they’re claiming and complaining that Apple runs ads to third-parties it sells in its own apps. This is an assertion from Facebook and Twitter, filed as a part of their argument in their complaint, not a fact in evidence. I’ve been using Apple Apps for more than forty years and have not seen a single Ad in an Apple app, even for an Apple product. Apple collects anonymous user data to make available to third-party developers of app add-on, which are made available to users through extensions for apps, but a user has to seek those extensions out, and users can opt out of even that data reporting to Apple.
Your second link is to another article, this in another progressive rag, claiming that Apple is hypocritical for allowing users to block tracking for privacy reasons but still allowing Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and other data mining apps to offer apps on the Apple Apps Store and for Safari to have Alphabet’s Google Search engine, a notorious user data miner, as the default search engine, in exchange for a $9 billion payment. Quoting the Atlantic article’s author:
” But to lean on policy as a prerequisite for action is to sidestep the moral quandary. If Apple really cared about personal data, the company could take any number of actions to keep privacy violators off its platforms and away from its customers. Until it does, it’s time to stop letting Apple off the hook as a more moral company than Google or Facebook. In fact, failing to take action while grandstanding about the urgency of doing so might make it even worse."
This bozo maintains that until Apple blocks its users from having the free choice of accessing any data-mining social media or search engine websites, then Apple is not only complicit in those privacy violations, Apple is actually likely more in violation of privacy violation than the actual data thieves are merely by allowing Apple users to make their own choice to visit those sites and take the risk of compromising their privacy!
Your third link is to an article in Appleinsider describing how Apple’s new tracking blocking will prevent user tracking data even in apps… and blows up your asserted narrative.
The last link is to an article that addresses three issues that are either industry wide, such as ”Exhibit A" complaint that the Apple iCloud backup data is not being user encrypted due to the Department of Justice (they said “FBI’s” behest) campaign to sue for search warrant accessibility if any company implemented such end-to-end user controlled encryption. Apparently Apple, along with numerous other cloud based serving companies’ legal advisors, came to the conclusion they would not win such a suit. The data is encrypted against intrusion by third-parties, but with Apple holding the key so they can comply with legal search warrants for specific user’s cloud data. Then there’s "Exhibit B"’s rehashing of 2018’s report of actual human contractors listening in on anonymized sampling’s of after-the-fact SIRI queries and responses to help improve the SIRI algorithms in responding to those queries. The contractors did not have any inkling of by-whom, where, or when the SIRI questions were posed, so no identifiable individuals’ privacy was compromised in this effort. The Guardian, another UK progressive rag, breathlessly reported that Apple continues to listen in. Apple never said they wouldn’t. SIRI still needs quality control improvements, and users could always opt-out when first turning SIRI on at availability. Apple just made SIRI by default off at each upgrade of iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS so you have the opportunity to agree to the privacy every upgrade now.
Finally, "Exhibit C" is the usual litany of iOS had a vulnerability a few months ago so it’s not perfect. SO WHAT! Those few dozen or so imperfections in iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS and the fact that iOS family devices automatically get upgrades for years that keep them secure that get fixed quickly pale in light of the multi-millions of actual exploits that were and are rife in the competition… in phones, tablets, portables, and desktops.
By the way, that vulnerability from April "Exhibit C" was so worried about was not just an Apple vulnerability… it was a vulnerability found in open-source WebKit which is used a many browser on multiple platforms including Apple, Android and its forks, Linux, UNIX, XENIX, Windows, quite a few browsers and email servers and clients. Contrary to the article’s hyperbole, Apple had actually fixed the issue in an earlier version of WebKit and iOS 13.2 and up. When the news got it in early May, Apple was pushing out automatic security patch upgrades to the 4% to 5% of iOS users who were still using older versions of iOS back to iOS 6. I posted an article on FR about it in May and pinged the Android, Linux, and Windows Ping list managers for their attention.
So much for your usual FUD negativity.
And yet another cultist wants to pull the “leftist conspiracy against Apple” card. You guys are pathetic. Apple must test you the talking points cause you all say the same stupid crap over and over. And it’s all wrong.
Here are the FACTS:
Apple has no more respect for your privacy than any of the other companies
Apple is overpriced
Apple bloats just like everybody else
And you cultists are pathetic
Goodbye