I agree. I know a number of people in advertising that are against tracking until they meet with a client. They would rather make money than stop using something they don’t believe in.
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Apps Continuing to Track Users Despite Apple's Privacy Prompt
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you are looking at it wrong, thinking of banning this or that app....trying to empty the sea with a spoon.
Targeted advertisement IN GENERAL, doesn't bring any value to society, it has to be killed and it's quite possible at system/OS level.
Because Apple cannot make dev community feel disrespected. Even like this, the companies are already very pissed by Apple ready.
I do have global setting to not even ask. I know I can delete the app, but that is not the point.
Apple should start handing out permanent App Store blacklists for each company found in violation. Something makes me think that other companies will clean up their act really quickly and not institute such workarounds. Make it a gut punch to the stomach and companies will cave.
The problem is proving a developer acquired the information from their app and not some other app or website like google maps or search that is more than happy to sell your data. I avoid Google as much as possible, but recently did an assignment for a marketing class that showed me how to see what Google knows about me and they were able to track me quite a bit. It was pretty disturbing.
Compile and keep updating a shared list of violating developers so that we the end user can just delete their apps and not get any more from them.
Yep, that's the narrative of some in here. Unfortunate. Straw man it is. Intelligent and well spoken they are not!
It never ceases to amaze me how anti-Apple filth will go out of their way to go to an Apple-centric forum and doth protest too much and spew platitudes about how bad Apple supposedly is. They need to just go to Lagdroid/Winblows forums and be with their kind and have a group climax over all the bad things that happen to Apple or mistakes made.
But yes, they are blaming Apple for something that isn't their fault. It will be if they choose not to act on this, but its new news and they aren't even giving them a chance. Some people want to see the world burn. The rest of us will give Apple their due props for always putting customer's privacy and security first and realize that even the best have flaws!
You can't ban the ability for an app to get your IP address it's not possible.
Can't or won't ? If you are the OS provider (which Apple is) you can do anything, including sandboxing any app.
Can't - The way the Internet work makes it impossible to hide the IP from the services you connect to. If you don't know the details, then refrain from making it sound like it's just a matter of wanting to.
How about Apple acting as a VPN/portal? No data at all going directly from you to the app vendor - or the other way.
I don't see it as an impossibility to come up with a technique something like this - but do accept it isn't obviously available right now to all users.
But is this the developers acting in bad faith or just using an ad sdk and the ad networks are the bad guys?
That makes a huge difference. Certainly Apple can (and should) ban any app that uses code from the ad companies that are abusing this. If the developers themselves are complicit, then I am totally down with a lifetime ban.
Third-party VPN services are available already and offer some protection. An integrated VPN solution by Apple would be interesting.
There’s so much wrong with this post I don’t even know where to start. I think every other sentence is factually incorrect.
I will say this, do a little bit of research in merchant accounts and marketing. And any iOS developer that is overly burdened by a $99 yearly fee is probably in the wrong career.
apples onerous developer fees and highway robbery on the subscription revenue has made a lot of app developers very wealthy.
Do you have any of the amount of data and bandwidth this would require. That would mean Apple would have more internet bandwidth available than the 100 biggest ISP's in the world if that could even cover it. While it technically would work, it's impossible in reality.
what's preventing Apple from piping data from an app to it's server, assign it another ip address and forward the connection ?
Yes, but that doesn't really hide the IP. You just replace it with a different one. But yes, as a consumer you are free to purchase a VPN subscription if you want to. I personally use a couple of VPN services, but don't expect Apple to do this for every single piece of data flowing through their apps. The bandwidth requirements would be beyond comprehension.
Protecting the device's IP is the important part since that's usually more static. The idea is that the IP exposed by the VPN can be assigned to a given device only short-term, or even be different on a per-App basis.