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Analytics Suggest 96% of Users Leave App Tracking Disabled in iOS 14.5
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I am still receiving Push Notification based on certain interactions / events triggered by certain apps. How can they know what I am doing inside of their app and thus send me a Push Notification if tracking is no longer allowed?
I turned it on just so I can have the satisfaction of telling apps no.
This was a huge step in the right direction for our society and power of tech today. Even though it affected my ventures, I am not complaining as I see this as a positive move.
I would like to speak to this 4% and ask why they want to be tracked all over the internet.
They can still track what you do in their app - this is all about tracking across different, multiple apps (by using a shared ID that identifies the whole device).
It was on by default on my phone, which just means that apps are allowed to ask for permission, not that they are granted it by default. I left it like that... and denied Facebook. They have spent the last decade proving that they are not a company worth putting my trust in.
then why do you have the app installed at all?
No surprise here.
This is partly the reason I prefer Apple Products
This is partly the reason I prefer Apple Products
I enabled it just to get this screenshot, and have the satifaction on denying Facebook.
if I am going to see ads, i prefer ones targeted towards me.
I know I am in the minority, but that’s the way I feel about it.
Pay me for the data I produce or I pay to keep it private. That simple.
I expect most operating systems to work like this in the future, like incognito browsers become the default.
I’ve said no to all apps except Nespresso. If they’re able to build a better profile of my coffee tastes and shopping trends around that, I’m cool with it.
Ok strange, we are using CleverTap for internal tracking WITHIN our App and the update has just been rejected even though we are not doing any advertisement within our app, let alone across apps or websites.
My app tracking has always been off - i'm not sure what's new about this "new" feature - is that if you had it on, it let any app track and now it asks you on a per app basis in case you wanted to whitelist a few? I've just always had it off so I never see any prompts for any of them and no apps can track
They're currently selling the fact you fancy George Clooney.
Having the setting look like this means you are automatically disabling app tracking and would never get the question asked per app, am I right?
any chance this was somewhere on the setup screen when you configured your device? i honestly cant remember.
https://diasporafoundation.org there is already an open source on that you can even host yourself. No need for Apple to enter a space that is better served by open source.
Don't forget to turn off Apple's advertising tracking in Settings / Privacy (bottom of the page) as well.
I came to ask the same thing. I’m pretty sure it isn’t as well. It wasn’t disabled on any of my devices or my parents’, and it seems like Apple would receive a lot of backlash from regulators if they disabled it by default.
This toggle actually isn’t anything new with iOS 14.5. It was introduced with iOS 14.0. But even prior to iOS 14.0, it was called ‘Limit Ad Tracking’ in another area. I’m suspecting people disabled it back when iOS 14.0 was released (or earlier with the previous setting), forgot about, and now think it’s a brand new feature again with iOS 14.5.