Apple-Commissioned Report Says App Tracking Transparency Hasn't Significantly Benefitted Company

[Karma*Police]

Hmmm… a professor from Columbia… a school that has lost all credibility along with pretty much every other ivy league school. Pass

 

[hans1972]

Apple collects the same data that Google collects. Both do not sell your data to 3rd Party advertisers as that would be counterproductive to their ad strategy. They would rather collect money from the advertisers multiple times than give them the data. Also, Apple does not want others to benefit from the data collection and hence wants to put themselves in an advantageous position, hence the useless talk about privacy labels and talk about privacy.

Does Apple Sell Your Data? Everything You Need To Know

It is completely justified if you want to know how Apple uses your data, and I think we have a somewhat complicated answer to this question

fossbytes.com

It's not about the collecting info but showing ads. Apple has never showed me any ad in their apps. Google shows target ads all over their plattform.

Also Apple don't collect any financial information (salary, assets, bank info) with the exception of one credit card which is not tied to my bank or government ID Data for me. They have no way to know these things.

I also don't consider data I voluntarily inputs to Apple has collecting data. If I am giving them my name to register an account, that's not what I'm concerned about. What I am concerned about is data which I haven't explicitly given them.

 

[hans1972]

The important thing is that companies like Facebook had massive reduction of income because of this. If Apple benefits, that's great.

 

[OnawaAfrica]

Just like the Microsoft commissioned report said dual-monitors increase productivity 50%. Report paid for by company benefitting from report supports what they wanted to prove.

well as a Webdesigner and Software Engineer i can tell u 2 or more Monitors are definetly increasing the productivity significantly

 

[Skyscraperfan]

? You do realise that you can advertise without having access to or needing user data?
Ever heard of newspapers?

It always annoys me to see ads in something I already paid for. A newspaper is a good example of that. Of course that makes the newspaper cheaper, but it also means that someone pays money to get information into my brain against my will. I quite hate that some of the largest companies in the world make most of their profit from advertising. I know that advertising is important, but if advertsing companies like Google or Facebook make much more money then the companies that buy the ads, something goes very wrong. That's why I use every trick to block ads I can find.

 

[Beautyspin]

It's not about the collecting info but showing ads. Apple has never showed me any ad in their apps. Google shows target ads all over their plattform.

Also Apple don't collect any financial information (salary, assets, bank info) with the exception of one credit card which is not tied to my bank or government ID Data for me. They have no way to know these things.

I also don't consider data I voluntarily inputs to Apple has collecting data. If I am giving them my name to register an account, that's not what I'm concerned about. What I am concerned about is data which I haven't explicitly given them.

Please check the link https://fossbytes.com/apple-data-collection-explained/. It shows exactly what type of data both collect on iOS and how Apple and Google use the data. Hint: They both collect the same data and Apple shows personalized ads too.

 

[Jeven Stobs]

It always annoys me to see ads in something I already paid for. A newspaper is a good example of that. Of course that makes the newspaper cheaper, but it also means that someone pays money to get information into my brain against my will. I quite hate that some of the largest companies in the world make most of their profit from advertising. I know that advertising is important, but if advertsing companies like Google or Facebook make much more money then the companies that buy the ads, something goes very wrong. That's why I use every trick to block ads I can find.

Understandable. But I’m not even talking about payed for newspapers. I’m talking about the ones you get for free, like free apps, or the ones you see while browsing shelves, like when searching for something in the App Store. You’ll encounter ads there, too.

 

[Jeven Stobs]

Please check the link https://fossbytes.com/apple-data-collection-explained/. It shows exactly what type of data both collect on iOS and how Apple and Google use the data. Hint: They both collect the same data and Apple shows personalized ads too.

Did you even care to read the article you linked?

While Google uses your personal data to show you personalized ads directly, Apple does so in a slightly better way. How so? Apple doesn’t show you targeted ads, but it puts you in segments that are shown particular types of ads.

[…], Apple serves advertisements only on the App Store, News app, and the Stocks app. The company policy makes clear that the ads are targeted to segments of people with similar likings.

You Should Also Know: A recent report by 9to5Mac says that Google collects over 20 times more data from Android than what Apple collects from its iOS UI. It comes as no surprise as Google’s own privacy policy, which you can read here, tells all about how everything from Maps to YouTube is used to track you.

“Just like Google” “personalised ads”?
No, neither of these apply.