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Apple Hit With $2.7 Billion Lawsuit Over App Tracking Rules

Read the title headline and already knew who it was suing Apple. Never seems to change, does it. It’s sad events when they sue Apple so many times for money that you already know who it is before reading it.
 
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Porco said:
The correct response here would be Apple announcing a new anti-tracking regime which is even more stringent, to apply equally to themselves and everyone else, and to thank the complainants for raising the issue and giving it such important attention.
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Apple would announce a new anti-tracking regimen.
Iran has a regime. 
Soldiers make up a regiment.
 
GuyDouche said:
You're missing the point. Apple is quick to point fingers at others while imposing strict policies. While they don't enforce such practices for their own business. They figure, even if they catch a lawsuit and pay a fine, they will still net more money after said suit, all due to being first and playing unfairly, until they get caught. A typical strategic move from Apple ever since AntennaeGate.
EDIT: Dislike all you want. Having worked for Apple Corporate in Cupertino & Palo Alto ~2010, I've witnessed firsthand their business strategy in how they operate. Just take a look at what blew up in Apple's face from the "tax haven" in Ireland. Stop feeling with your emotions for a moment and think like a global dominating business.
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That’s your example??? Apple making a deal with Ireland. Following the rules Ireland laid out. Paying billions in taxes to Ireland. And then the EU decides to stick their nose in, and tell Ireland they aren’t allowed to make their own tax code for their own country. Ireland never felt robbed or scammed and were on Apples side. Its no wonder the UK wanted out, when a sovereign country can’t make their own tax code without morons in Brussels wanting a big fat cut……….i mean saying its unfair. Ugh.
 
GregoryPeckEPA said:
The fines represent like 0.001% of the profits they make from breaking them. When companies threaten to pull out of a location, it’s like a kid holding their breath during a temper tantrum. I’ll see you when you turn purple.
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Your math is so far off that it impugns any credibility one might assign to your rhetoric. $2.7 billion is .001% of (2.7/(.001))*100=270,000 billion dollars. Apple's profits last year were ~$112 billion. If 100% of that profit were due to Apple breaking some rule then it would take Apple 270,000/112=2,410.714 years of profits before $2.7 billion were .001%.

FYI, the real percentage of the fine is (2.7/112)*100=2.411% of Apple's profit last year.
 
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This whole argument is stupid. Apple doesn't track you outside of their own systems. The reason they have the toggle for stuff like Facebook is because Facebook runs a global ad network outside of their own systems. I hate this false dichotomy from advertisers like this UK lawsuit and government organizations like the EU.
 
Hammerd said:
And rightfully so. There is a world between their polished perceived image and what they do behind the scenes to make so much money.

The sheer amount of people that will dislike this proves how effective the PR brainwashing is.
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at the end just another tax we are paying for governments and “regulation institutions“
 
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FOG Data Services
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Creepy.
Do you ever check the privacy report on iOS? I noticed a few years before it was released by Apple that apps have been growing in size without providing any actual new content. Checking the privacy report tells it all, so many apps are packed with unnecessary third party api, trackers, and other data collection tools.

I’ve switched to a lot of one time paid apps that are light weight and keep and eye on the privacy report for phoning home. The weather app I use is a 10mb app, I imagine most of that is the app icon, and the privacy report is clean.
 
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Graphate said:
Creepy.
Do you ever check the privacy report on iOS? I noticed a few years before it was released by Apple that apps have been growing in size without providing any actual new content. Checking the privacy report tells it all, so many apps are packed with unnecessary third party api, trackers, and other data collection tools.

I’ve switched to a lot of one time paid apps that are light weight and keep and eye on the privacy report for phoning home. The weather app I use is a 10mb app, I imagine most of that is the app icon, and the privacy report is clean.
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Gmail is one of the worst offenders: 700MB just to do email. Seriously?😒
 
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Gmail is one of the worst offenders: 700MB just to do email. Seriously?😒
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I was an engineering director in Google's ad area. I do not have a Google account. I try to avoid using anything created by Google. I do not trust the company at all for many reasons. That said, it is hard to avoid them. In fact, Safari reports that it has blocked 93 ad-trackers on the MacRumors site, among those are the following ones owned by Alphabet/Google: 2mdn.net, doubleclick.net, google.com, googlesyndijcation.com, googletagmanager.com, and googletagservices.com.

Of the others blocked from MacRumors, the following are companies whose business model is based on determining and selling user identity: tapad.com, thrtle.com, rlcdn.com, intentiq.com, id5-sync.com, rqtrk.eu, liadm.com, adsymptotic.com, demdex.net, agkn.com, 33across.com, bluecava.com.
 
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vantelimus said:
I was an engineering director in Google's ad area. I do not have a Google account. I try to avoid using anything created by Google. I do not trust the company at all for many reasons. That said, it is hard to avoid them. In fact, Safari reports that it has blocked 93 ad-trackers on the MacRumors site, among those are the following ones owned by Alphabet/Google: 2mdn.net, doubleclick.net, google.com, googlesyndijcation.com, googletagmanager.com, and googletagservices.com.

Of the others blocked from MacRumors, the following are companies whose business model is based on determining and selling user identity: tapad.com, thrtle.com, rlcdn.com, intentiq.com, id5-sync.com, rqtrk.eu, liadm.com, adsymptotic.com, demdex.net, agkn.com, 33across.com, bluecava.com.
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Insightful.
Also I’ve shared this before from that Nope Tracker safari extension if you want a visual: IMG_3536.png
 
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