Do y'all think Google will roll out their equivalent to Apple's Advanced Data Protection?
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May 16, 2026
retouch:
> Given ADP is not a competitive strength
This is a bold assumption to make, why would it not be?
ADP to me is a very obvious competitive strength. It is just that the upside for Google to suck up all your data and train their AI models on your Google Photos collection outweighs that competitive strength. Without a similar opposing force at Apple, I would think that ADP wins out on its merits alone, not as a mere risk-mitigation strategy.
If their actual concern was simply reducing liability/risk for hosting data on iCloud, they would make ADP mandatory and no longer host any cleartext data. It being an optional feature makes it more clear to me that Apple knows some people will switch to iCloud simply because that feature exists.
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