Facebook and Instagram Ask Users to Enable App Tracking in Order to Keep Services 'Free of Charge'

[RobynH]

>> “if they want to help Facebook and Instagram.”

Why in the Г#€Ж would I ever want to help Facebook?

 

[GSWForever8]

Lies! And if we have to pay, which won’t happen, Facebook is going to go out of business. Face it, you live looking through our browsing histories, don’t you suckerberg?

 

[kazmac]

That would make me leave IG, which I reluctantly rejoined to keep up-to-date with creatives I like.

 

[snipr125]

They are absolute scumbags!

 

[mansplains]

You shouldn't see this screen if you care about things like ATT because you don't have these apps nor accounts with their respective companies.

 

[Nuno Lopes]

Don’t understand all the fuss. They are asking for the same Apple asks. Before they were bad because they didn’t, now they are because they ask?

Legal - Apple Advertising & Privacy- Apple

Data & Privacy

support.apple.com

 

[_Spinn_]

Doesn’t this violate Apple’s terms?

 

[2010mini]

It still amazes me that people want things for free but then complain about how much free costs.

I think people want to at least get a piece of what “free” is making off their data.

 

[Frantisekj]

Fair option. People can vote if they wanna see Facebook to live or die.

 

[Apple_Robert]

Not surprised FB and Instagram are trying to intimidate people into caving in. It would make my year to see people en masse delete their data and leave said companies for good.

 

[Apple_Robert]

go start charging for facebook, your user base will dwindle down at light speed ... love this move, this will end social media as we now it

I wished I shared your enthusiasm. Too many people are addicted to social media and care way too much about being popular and accepted by strangers.

 

[Westside guy]

I'm old enough to remember that advertisements have, for most of their existence, been non-targeted. Yet companies managed to exist - and even profit! - during those dark times.

What targeted advertising has mainly accomplished is to create tech company billionaires whose only product is the sale of your personal information.

 

[pcaleb]

I read that in 2020 Facebook netted 80 million a day. That’s PROFIT. 80 million a day. Keep that in mind for perspective when they say they need your money.

 

[Apple_Robert]

How long is it going to take people to realize they need to dump these services?

When Hell freezes over.

 

[tkermit]

I kinda like the idea of being a paying customer rather than part of the product.

Mark Zuckerberg, probably:

 

[Apple_Robert]

I'm old enough to remember that advertisements have, for most of their existence, been non-targeted. Yet companies managed to exist - and even profit! - during those dark times.

What targeted advertising has mainly accomplished is to create tech company billionaires whose only product is selling your information.

Showin' your age Westside.

 

[Westside guy]

Showin' your age Westside.

Haha, speak up sonny!

 

[Apple_Robert]

I didn't mind ads when they served them related to the site you were visiting and not some creepy profile they're keeping on you.

Oh you're on MacRumors? Might be interested in this Thunderbolt Dock from X company

Oh you're on a Pet website? Have a look at these cool dog treats

etc

etc

I don't want companies like FB, Instagram and others following me everywhere I go, even if it may be for something I might be I interested in. Thank God Apple and some others are trying to put a stop to this kind of invasion.

 

[BWhaler]

Sandberg. Zuck. Facebook. All scum.

And the Facebook employees should all be ashamed of themselves.

 

[Squozen]

If I could have paid for your product and not been spied on you might have kept me as a user, Facebook.

 

[kelemor88]

The McDonalds app did something similar with a splash page asking to keep tracking so we can serve you better..

 

[MJedi]

Isn't this a violation of the App Store rules?

 

[Havalo]

Text book definition of ‘shooting yourself in the foot’.

 

[alaman64]

Yes, Apple is the good guy, standing up for our Privacy rights. Give me a break, I love their products and apple have made tons of money of me, with their obscene mark ups. How much money have I given face book? 0$... What I have I received from Facebook? I've sold tons of stuff on Facebook Marketplace, I've found friends I haven't seen in years, I've promoted my photography business, my wife has promotes her plates business all for free.

 

[Yaboze]

The addicted Facebook and Insta users will turn it on and they know it. Scare tactics ftw.