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Analytics Suggest 96% of Users Leave App Tracking Disabled in iOS 14.5
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Except it's the tracking that results in getting ads for things already purchased and garbage ads based on other app's desire to sell us things they get a % from. In order for the ads to be more specific to things we might want in the future they would have to read our minds.
I love how Facebook/Instagram try to entice users to enable tracking to keep their social media services free. Maybe I'm older than my actual age (29) but I honestly would just delete the account if they tried to charge me for their services.
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You used to also be able to opt out of iAd data collection by going to https://oo.apple.com/
It used to be something you needed to do any time you got a new iPhone or iOS device.
it's almost as if they are saying that only apple's ads are good and everyone elses is bad
Leaving this off by default is honestly one of the biggest privacy strides Apple has made in recent years. I’m so sick and tired of having to delve through settings to opt out of something I never should’ve been thrown into in the first place.
Because not allowing tracking doesn't mean not allowing the developer to see what you do inside their app.
Not allowing tracking means the app developer doesn't get to see what you do outside of the app, i.e. on other apps and websites.
It would insane if an app developer would not have any visibility into how you use their app. How would they know how to develop it?
That isn't TRACKING, though.
From the iOS "Apple Advertising" settings:
"The Apple Advertising Platform does not track you. It is designed to protect your privacy and does not follow you across apps and websites, owned by other companies. You have control over how Apple uses your information."
Tracking, as it is used in the industry, means following a user across other companies' apps and websites.
Apple Advertising does not do that.
Same, although I have a feeling that after a while, I'm going to get tired of saying no and turn it back off again.
Sure thing kiddo. Apple doesn’t track you. Got it. Lol.
Or rather, Facebook makes less money from targeted ads and selling tracking information to third parties.
Of course they see what you do on *their* platform. That isn't the definition of tracking as it used in the industry, though.
Words matter.
It is actually a bit of a surprise - the argument for some time has been that the non-technical public is inured to loss of privacy and younger people simply don't care. This is counter-evidence to that position (and so motivates research on stronger privacy protection, which may otherwise be hard to justify or unfashionable - why do research on something that people simply don't care about?). The fact that the rates are different in the US and the rest of the world is also interesting. Even if it's a case of not turning off the default, it shows that people do not positively want to be tracked (at least without being presented with a clear assessment of the benefits).
It also gives Apple a marketing advantage, of course
Most people don’t care. Only the few on tech pages. What people say means nothing compared to what they do
Or they work for Facebook and similar companies, or the Facebook threat got to them, or they are exhibitionists that like being watched. 🤔
It was here on macrumors where someone I can’t remember wrote a neat analogy on this: “saying I don’t care about privacy because I got nothing to hide is like saying I don’t care about free speech because I got nothing to say”.Apple limiting specific advertising is likely the best advertisement for Apple itselfand we should be very glad for this! Some people act like "I have nothing to hide" or don't really care. But just step back for a moment and observe in what kind of world we live in. We never asked for advertisement in our lives, it just happened. Slowly but steadily we're advancing more towards a '1984' or 'Big Brother'-world when tracking is a thing.
When firms like Facebook and Google get all desperate, actively battle for tracking and gathering user-data because they have based their whole business model on it as an argument, just have to face they have chosen a wrong business model.
Probably looked for the add tracking I’d, when it wasn’t available, the feature was off. Doesn’t really sound like a hard intellectual excercise
CleverTap itself is outside your app though isn't it? I just long-pressed it and it says it's a SaaS product, so I suspect that's the issue. Your app is trying to interact with an eternal entity for tracking purposes, even if the tracking data is only about your one app.
If the feature setting is off globally, well you won’t. You haven’t given permission for apps to even ask