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Antitrust Complaint Filed in Germany Over Apple's Incoming App Tracking Transparency Requirement
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You might not see them because...Settings/Privacy/Tracking/Allow Apps to Request to Track is disabled
I will never buy anything that interrupts my reading or use of my device. I see that my Weather Underground app is suddenly full of ads. Maybe they did in advance of this update?
How about Apple News and Apple Stock apps, full of ads?
How about Apple News and Apple Stock apps, full of ads?
Who gives an ever loving crap?
And I love how the EU stands for privacy...until they don’t. We’ll see where this flung horse manure lands.
Most importantly, Apple isn’t stopping tracking here!! They’re educating customers about it and facilitating them opting out. The lawsuit is to force Apple to let advertisers and ad-abetting devs keep customers in the dark about stealing and distributing their personal info. This is a bloody winnable legal case??
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These companies will try to track you, no matter what. The only way to handle this is give them what they want: endless amount of (nonsensical) data, while at the same time letting them pay for it.
You are going to get advertisements either way (wether relevant or not barely matters) - so just embrace it, by clicking on every single one of them (automated, for convenience). The users actual interests are hidden in a smokescreen of clicks (great), while generating revenue for the visited websites (great), and as a bonus letting the advertisement company pay for what they want - clicks on their advertisements. That's a real win-win-win scenario for almost everyone.
Totally agree. *🏼Facebook and all other apps collecting data and trying to sell bullsh*t ads.
I don't know whats the level of intelligence of these industry associations but Apple is not disabling tracking, they are informing the users that they are being tracked. Second, Even if Apple wanted to completely stop tracking thats actually a good thing to society. Thats like Apple is banning smoking ads. You don't like their platform, go else where, just like IRL when you don't like a store/restaurant policy.
As for Antitrust, we should file an antitrust case against Facebook and Google who collect and retain an ambiguous amount of our data for an unknown amount of time and giving it to people we do not know.
As for Antitrust, we should file an antitrust case against Facebook and Google who collect and retain an ambiguous amount of our data for an unknown amount of time and giving it to people we do not know.
Without the revenue by ads you have to pay for the services. To pay you have to register and you are loosing more of your anonymity than through tracking.
The problem with Apple Tracking Transparency is that the ads will not disappear but ads sold by Apple will be more efficient than those sold by other companies. Since you are only allowed to install apps through the Appstore, Apple knows a lot about you.
It seems that your understanding of this case isn't in any way superior to the competence of German courts.
You say people are losing more of their anonymity by paying like it’s a definite—it isn’t.
Registering to pay gives an email address, sure, but I make a temporary email address for every service I sign up for, which is a method available to others—whether they know it or not.
There are multiple ways to pay without using your physical address, and even if you did, there are more invasive ways that apps track you, like your location when using the app—which can be and often is different than your billing address. Apps can also track interactions and browsing history across apps, which registering to pay does not do.
Reducing my attack vectors/all of the ways my information can leak down? Sign me up.
Potentially granting the stewardship of my info to one company isn’t perfect, but if I have to do it, giving it to a company who has tangibly demonstrated a greater commitment to user privacy than most others? Even better.
If you don’t understand the level of user activity and information that can be gleaned and combined using the IDFA vs. an email address/registration for payment, or how limiting your personal info to a smaller amount of companies that have shown more responsibility with regard to user data vs. a free for all spread that is likely happening without users’ knowledge or consent…then perhaps it is you it is that doesn’t understand the issues at play in this case.