I'm with you. Just providing some context I think is important regarding Apple's own statements on how Airtags were designed to be privacy conscious when this is false.

I certainly am not arguing in favour of any bans. That would be ineffective and lead to a situation where the tech ends up mostly in the hands of criminals and the state (as if there's a difference) which naturally encourages malicious use cases.

Pointing out yet another example of Apple lying about privacy is important for anyone who actually buys into their marketing though. I know people on this site don't, but I bet most us know people who do.

Many times I have heard "iPhones are more private because Apple said so" when this is downright false. Stock Android is no better, but that's the point, they're just as bad as each other. At least with Android you have the choice to install GrapheneOS and other privacy and security conscious options.

P.S. I find Proton to be a decent compromise between privacy and convenience. Since all the encryption (including Proton Drive) is using Ed25519 PGP, I do wish they would let me upload my own public key while keeping the private key to myself, that way there would be client-side encryption and it'd be much more valuable for true zero knowledge privacy.