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Apple's New Privacy-Focused Tracking Prompt Appearing for iOS 14 Users [Updated]

planteater said:
Yes, it is very squishy, imprecise language. It makes me wonder how effective it is that they would use such language.
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It’s not imprecise at all. It asks the app to not track you. The app can (figuratively) say yes or no to complying, but doesn’t have to tell you what it’s answer is. Might as well assume that the answer is always no, meaning this feature effectively does nothing.
 
planteater said:
"Ask app not to track." Shouldn't that be "Block app from tracking." Is it blocking or not?
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planteater said:
Yes, it is very squishy, imprecise language. It makes me wonder how effective it is that they would use such language.
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I’ve thought this too but I wonder if it’s worded this way to give Apple ammunition to kick that app off the App Store. “They asked you nicely!”

Also shifts the blame from Apple if the app still does track after you hit “deny”. Like you hitting deny didn’t actually work sort of thing
 
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Ironically, if all apps and websites respected my wish to not be tracked, it would be the most relevant personalisation feature they’d ever managed to implement.
 
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oneMadRssn said:
I think the issue is Apple cannot guarantee the app isn't going to track you
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They can't, because they never get access to server-side part of the application, so they cannot code review it.

Maybe the part that runs on your phone conforms to the "do not track" request, but Apple can't promise the server-side code will. They might use other methods to identify the user (especially if you have to log in to use the app).

It already puts a big hindrance on the ad networks, since apps will lose access to an unique ad identifier that can be shared across different apps. But Facebook will know "you are you" whenever you use Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp, and any app/website with "login with FB" or maybe even the FB pixel.

The only way to not be tracked by FB is to not use the Internet, as they have their claws in everything. All other solutions are only making it harder for them, but rarely impossible.
 
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This is going to be like the location tracking prompt: I see the benefit, but man it's so damn annoying to have this popup
 
Thanks! This practice of tracking people when they are not on your app is unacceptable!!!!! Looking at you Facebook! Especially you!
 
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ghanwani said:
Get ready for a flurry of apologies of the form:

“We didn’t mean to track user activity across apps. We value our customers and respect their privacy. The bug in our app will be fixed shortly. Thank you for putting your trust in us and for your continued patronage!”
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Well unless you paied fir the app, or the service/content the ap accesse, you are not the apps coustumer, you ( or more correctl the data the app collects) ipare tge orodeuct, the coustomer is who evere psyes for the data
 
jz0309 said:
I do not think so, from what I've gathered it and app-specific setting ... wish it would.
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Yes you can! I think it’s turned on by default. Thumbnail cuts off the important part on its top. Open it to see.
 

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Robert.Walter said:
Yes you can! I think it’s turned on by default. Thumbnail cuts off the important part on its top. Open it to see.
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that looks good, thanks for sharing.
now I wonder what it really means "apps that don't ask may still try to track you"? could you share the content of the "Learn more" link?
 
t0pher said:
I got a similar prompt earlier on a web page that had forums powered by Facebook I had to click allow to read the content.
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What we need is "fake tracking" apps. This is some kind of app that makes the site think it is tracking you but is really just sending random data.

The app would act as a proxy server. You connect to it rather than connecting directly to the Internet and then it connects to the Internet and acts as a filter. Removing ads and sending "believable gibberish" to those that attempt to track you.
 
I wish they had a prompt to accept or deny to transmit the clipboard to other apps. :cool:
 
I feel that the word “better” is highly subjective and should be removed from the prompt.
 
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