Apple Has Quietly Started Tracking iPhone Users Again, And It's Tricky To Opt Out

[AJAAY]

your PRIVACY is not being tracked. Thats the whole point that people dont understand. In order for someone to invade your privacy, by definition, they need to know WHO you are.

These services dont collect ANY personal information as that is illegal. They dont know your name, nor is any of the information they collect linked to any identifiable person (unless you specifically give that information within the app).

Its simply linked to a randomly generated number, period.

All these threads do is make people turn these settings off for no reason which equals less revenue for companies that make these free apps for us, which means less free apps.

So yea you can make whatever choice you want, just dont come back here and cry when your favorite app turns into a paid app instead of free.

ADs are still being shown. Turning this off in settings doesn't stop the ADs, just stops them from tracking you to show you catered ADs, but the ADs are still coming. So they are not losing revenue.

 

[brand]

It's my constitutional right not to be tracked, and it will be implemented.

Where in the constitution does it say that?

 

[kdarling]

ADs are still being shown. Turning this off in settings doesn't stop the ADs, just stops them from tracking you to show you catered ADs, but the ADs are still coming. So they are not losing revenue.

It depends on which ad network is being used.

Some pay a lot more for an actual ad click, and clicks are more likely to occur if the ad is of interest.

E.g. Apple used to charge advertisers about 1 cent per view, but $2 per click. The developer got a percentage of all that. Apple recently dropped the per-click charge, but other ad networks still charge.

 

[Myiphone7]

Where in the constitution does it say that?

Read it like everyone else and you'll see too

 

[brand]

Read it like everyone else and you'll see too

I have. I guess that you can't back what you spew.

 

[rman726]

If I am going to be getting ads, I at least want them based on my location/interest. I see no problem with this ...

It doesn't disable the ads, just interest based ads

That makes the ads more effective though, which means you are more likely to spend money to purchase the item from the ad. IMO, that is not what I want. That is what the advertiser wants. As a typical consumer, you probably want an ad that doesn't entice you to spend money.

 

[kdarling]

As a typical consumer, you probably want an ad that doesn't entice you to spend money.

As an adult, I can control my spending. It's children who look at every ad on TV and go "Daddy! I want that!"

Besides, who's to say that the non-targeted ads wouldn't have some more enticing items!

 

[Myiphone7]

I have. I guess that you can't back what you spew.

I guess you can't read.

 

[mattopotamus]

That makes the ads more effective though, which means you are more likely to spend money to purchase the item from the ad. IMO, that is not what I want. That is what the advertiser wants. As a typical consumer, you probably want an ad that doesn't entice you to spend money.

so you are basically saying you have no self control haha.

 

[BaldiMac]

Apple's iOS Settings option doesn't really disable tracking. It certainly doesn't turn off the IFA. It simply sets a flag that the advertiser is voluntarily supposed to honor by not sending targeted advertising.

Apple's Advertising Identifier API for apps states the following about the advertisingTrackingEnabled flag:



Even this does not stop targeted ads, of course, since advertisers have other means of tracking users. There is, for example, a MAC address database that's being built up for this purpose. They also have their own flags from their own apps.

What's also not clear is if this setting also affects iAds served from Apple. They have a support article that points to a separate link you have to follow to disable targeted iAds: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4228 ... Could be old info, though it states that it was Last Modified: Sep 19, 2012.

Okay. Not sure how that changes my point about the fact that the setting is not the same as the one that you pointed out on Android.

What part of what I said wasn't true

The part where you said that the setting we are discussing is only applicable to iAds.