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Apple's Privacy Measures to Cost Facebook $10 Billion in 2022
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I'm not a violent person, but doesn't Zuck have one of those "punch me!" faces? Glad to see Apple and others giving him a financial "punch". A Meta-free world would be a happier place, IMO.
Yes, it sounded like ad dollars are moving out of their platforms, and the Apple privacy changes compounded that issue.
It's good to see Apple protecting the users. I hope that all data and privacy interference will be opt in only in the future and any data transfer will be made transparent to the user including the option to see and erase what is stored. Finally individual private data are taken and made to be somebody else's business and profit. Behind the scenes everything gets connected and users get sort of exploited with not many limits left. This has gone too far for my taste.
How long until we start seeing "monopoly" lawsuits that Apple is abusing its competitive position to beat up on poor advertisers?
First of all, I’m glad to hear FaceBook is taking a big hit. They don’t deserve to profit off me without my consent.
Second, I don’t know what world I live on anymore when $27B-$29B of earnings is considered “grim”. WTH has happened to us.
Second, I don’t know what world I live on anymore when $27B-$29B of earnings is considered “grim”. WTH has happened to us.
I have deleted my Facebook several years ago. But I have the impression, from friends and news articles, that it's mainly a platform for boomers to be confronted with fox-like fake news stuff to piss them off and increase their platform engagement.
Another reason their revenue is down is that their core userbase is dying from Covid while posting antivax memes
The eventual problem Apple and others will have in changing their practices with advertisers is in that how long is it going to be before advertisers start making court claims against Apple and others for interefering with a legitimate business in that they are preventing them from doing legitimate business because as far as I am aware, compaines are not allowed to interfere with the way another company goes about it's legitmate business. Yes I am sure the majority of us can't stand the way advertisers go about their business but at the end of the day, like it or not it is still a legitimate business practice.
You've just made a statement of fact. You now need to prove this statement or remove your post.
Facebook may have an image problem, but the rest of us have a Facebook problem.
Zuckerberg name translated from German to English reads:
Zucker = Sugar
Berg = Hill
Therefore Mr Sugarhill is not tasting so sweat after all. A little less of a sugar daddy I guess?
Zucker = Sugar
Berg = Hill
Therefore Mr Sugarhill is not tasting so sweat after all. A little less of a sugar daddy I guess?
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You are right, but I think most people's issue here is how it is phrased.
"Apple privacy measures are costing us billions" vs "Apple is preventing us from tracking customers without permission across the web"
And in what way is tracking me legitimate? Try to track a person on the street and see how quick you will end with an injunction order!!
I see what you mean, but the reality is worse than that: Apple’s privacy measures is preventing Facebook from gaining 10 billions in 2022 from the data it is stealing from his users and from other unwilling people.
Apple has no obligation to provide advertisers with the ability to track you
No, it doesn't cost them that much. They just didn't make as much money. Yet they still make billions anyway. Puff piece trash as if Facebook was a poor little company.
We already see the lobbyists corrupting the politicians to force sideloading. Apple also has a weakness, their virtue signalling will bite them back hard.
The point that comes across so strongly is that Meta/fb seem to assume (then demand) a right to track users.
That they have been able to do so for so long is the only basis for any such claim. A bit like a person who assaults their spouse every day and are then told to stop. They might rage at the injustice of having change their behaviour, but it never was acceptable.
That they have been able to do so for so long is the only basis for any such claim. A bit like a person who assaults their spouse every day and are then told to stop. They might rage at the injustice of having change their behaviour, but it never was acceptable.
Those users are mostly bots and fake accounts anyway. Almost none of them were real persons. Facebook love these bots to inflate their active users engagement numbers.
All the platforms are doing it. Political bots, troll farms, crypto scams. Crypto bots spam every damn place and the platform owners benefit from the scams so they do nothing. All they care about is growth numbers and they don't give one molecule worth of **** about how much damage it does to society. It's just a big cash grab to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of a dozen VCs and CEOs.
Hopefully some combination of factors can cost Facebook $1 trillion in 2022 and this stain on humanity, this absolute cancer that is Facebook can be wiped away. Social media was a huge mistake for society. Sadly, I think a $10 billion hit will not have much of an adverse effect on them.
I'll take two t-shirts and a hat, please
