I doubt that most people would stop using an ad blocker once they started using one.
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Apple Confirms Commitment to App Tracking Transparency in Letter Condemning Facebook's Data Collection [Updated]
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I doubt that most people would stop using an ad blocker once they started using one.
Do you subscribe to MacRumors to make up for the lost advertising revenue due to the ad blocker ?
Plus this privacy model only applies to Apple users. Windows and Android could care less about privacy
It's hardly such an either-or proposition.
An advertising-based revenue model doesn't (and won't, and shouldn't) simply disappear if and when it can't be fed by massively-detailed personal profiles gathered by surreptitious, invasive, and utterly insatiable data collection.
The rates at which your eyeballs can be sold may decline when messages cannot be so laser-targetted. That's not my concern, to put it mildly.
If the question is am I contributor to make up for the lost revenue due to using an ad-blocker? The answer is I'm not a contributor, nor do I use an ad-blocker and sometimes I do click on the ads.
We’re sadly at the point where Apple has needed to step up and protect users’ privacy against other corporations like Facebook since politicians won’t sign legislation to do so (since they’re bribed/lobbied not to). Of course this privacy stance has the added benefit of also bolstering Apples profits too but I’ll take what I can get since it benefits everyone, except advertisers.
How about by default all apps can't track? Why is that so hard?
I wonder, if the feature is implemented as on the picture, why on earth would anyone ever press "allow tracking"?
Just for argument’s sake, at what point is information free? After all, there are plenty of news websites that charge subscription fees. And if I want to search and have access to JSTOR’s academic journals, I have to pay. Therefore, I don’t think it’s a wild stretch to say Google could charge a monthly access fee for using its search tool. It just doesn’t want to, because the current paradigm of allowing free access in exchange for users’ personal data is much more lucrative.
Well maybe, or maybe not, but I'd be more than happy to let this privacy-abusive industry stop attempting to asymptotically approach maximum possible rates for our eyeballs through their exponentially-growing and limitless surveillance and collection of our activities.
Legitimate advertising will survive, and can thrive, absent rapacious collection and profiling. To assert otherwise is to construct a straw-man false choice in attempt to convince people that the grotesque status quo is somehow necessary. It's just not.
Zuckerberg-bot is displeased with this action and will record so in his log.
I getcha, but I do think the proposed flow of this is not too far off that scenario.
I'm perfectly happy to see which apps wish to surreptitiously track me across services.
And then immediately deny that sht, as effectively as I can (whether simply selecting "Do Not Track", for whatever that does, which is hopefully more than the long-ignored web browser "Do Not Track" setting, or uninstalling the app, or taking some other steps).
Or, if someone really wants to be tracked, well, that's his every right, too!
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Paying to access academic journals is somewhat different to paying for access to the latest cat wretching videos...
Good on Apple. Facebook should be condemned. It is evil.
They can be paid by selling their other services. Yes I think searching the internet should be free. Before this massive scraping and selling of personal information, the internet was a free place. Granted it’s not anymore, but search is not something that should be in encouraged to be monetised. Private internet searches should be a right. Google doesn’t own the internet.
Good. Just like in the real world, people should be able to turn around and say, “Stop following me, Creep!”
Some of the stuff they do goes beyond harassment, especially when they allow politicians to take advantage of data profiles and spread misinformation to specific people and tricking them into re-election.
Some of the stuff they do goes beyond harassment, especially when they allow politicians to take advantage of data profiles and spread misinformation to specific people and tricking them into re-election.
Unfortunately, facebook collects data about YOU no matter what.
They can and do build a profile of you using information from proxy sources , e.g. your friends and associates, whose email and messages and contact list and photos contain YOU
I like normal ads. I even will click on them for sites like this one and other sites I rely on. But I don’t want some marketing entity following me everywhere I go.
And when I’m on a site like this it would be cool to see ads relevant to the content of this site, not for all the things I had to web search so I can take care of elderly family members. I’m so sick of seeing ads that assume I’m 94 years old. That being said, I now use an ad blocker or I can’t surf at all without sites’ ads doing something that overheats my phone or iPad.
Also is there a way to donate to this site so our full name and address isn’t disclosed during the payment process I’m pretty sure that information is already known to the site owners and is moot should I decide to subscribe, but I am curious how subscription models to sites like this work if you want to just stay anonymous.
And when I’m on a site like this it would be cool to see ads relevant to the content of this site, not for all the things I had to web search so I can take care of elderly family members. I’m so sick of seeing ads that assume I’m 94 years old. That being said, I now use an ad blocker or I can’t surf at all without sites’ ads doing something that overheats my phone or iPad.
Also is there a way to donate to this site so our full name and address isn’t disclosed during the payment process I’m pretty sure that information is already known to the site owners and is moot should I decide to subscribe, but I am curious how subscription models to sites like this work if you want to just stay anonymous.
Uh, no, profitability is Apple's number 1 PRIORITY. That is pretty much their mandate, as a publicly listed company.
Let's poll the shareholders: should we aim for 0 revenue growth, 0 profit, 0 fcf next quarter, and an inscrutible privacy policy; or should we aim for to maximize our financials while having decent privacy policy?
Privacy is one of the means and tenets by which Apple chooses to build its business. They have other equally important, explicit corporate values
I don't care if Google collects data. At least Google makes our lives easier. Now Facebook is the cancer of tech. It's a waste of time. It's made to collect data and make Mark billions. Before Facebook we already had video calls, chat and blogs. We don't need it. I'm 5 years Facebook free. Relatives and bots won't keep tabs of me in there for sure.
I'm having trouble remembering any other public company that so strongly advocates for their customers' privacy and right to choose. Good on Apple!
A case can be made that google probably should be paying us for all the data they have collected on us, and not simply providing their services for free.