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Facebook Says Apple's iOS 14 Anti-Tracking Features Will Cut 50% of its Audience Network Ad Revenue
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I stopped my accounts in late 2011/early 2012 and they still seem to have my information, ready for me to return, even though they told me that they'd only keep it for six months.
I have proudly stayed off of Facebook and don’t care. I’m sure Zuckerburg will be just fine.
Same thing has happened with my wife. It is shameful that they are allowed to get away with this. Disgusting that they llie when you try to leave them.
Ads are so worthless now it’s not even funny! Skip, mute, fast forward or just not watch the intended venue. Have you seen the deluge of ads on YouTube? 50% loss is not enough.
"Facebook says that many of its developers and publishers will be "hurt" by iOS 14 at an "already difficult time,"
So Facebook plays the COVID-19 card. Since when did Facebook ever be concerned about anything besides itself?
So Facebook plays the COVID-19 card. Since when did Facebook ever be concerned about anything besides itself?
Good!!!
Zuck & Fakebook only make $50B next year. I only wish they would do the same thing to Twitter.
Just wanted to throw in another opinion - not that I love facebook...but the impact this will have on apps and developers.
Keeping in mind this is an ad supported website, where macrumours receives revenue from display advertising and affiliate links. Free stuff has to be paid for somehow.
The changes in ios14 remove access in most cases to the 'IDFA' (Identifier for Advertisers) unless consent is given - and let's face it - no one will. The IDFA was specifically brought by Apple for the purpose of confirming who installed an app because they saw an ad, or who took action on an ad in an app.
So if you're a developer and you publish a free app, which is ad supported. The people paying you to run your ads (via Facebook or Google, or any other in app ad publishing network) need to know that someone has actually seen or clicked your ad before they pay you. If that can't be done - the advertiser isn't going to pay you. So you have no income.
If you're a developer of an app, and you're trying to encourage people to install it - so running ads -with out the IDFA you'll struggle to understand how many actual installs you achieve for the money you pay - and therefore improve the efficiency of the advertising to promote your app. For startups and apps that need to grow this makes it very hard.
It's not all about targeting, it's also about attribution.
Oh and don't forget...this does nothing to stop the developer of the app tracking what you do inside the app...or if they include the Facebook SDK in their app which LOTS of apps do (https://www.macrumors.com/2020/07/10/facebook-sdk-ios-apps-crash/). It still isn't going to stop Zuck and his empire knowing what you're doing.
Final note. You can already do this without iOS 14.
Go to 'Settings > Privacy > Advertising' and you have some options that are rarely talked about in the apple world.
You can turn on 'Limit Ad Tracking' (LAT) which basically masks your IDFA
Or you can reset it to a new number - so anyone who previously knew who you were from an ad perspective won't any more.
Now apple aren't whiter than white here...Because if you know anything about Apple App Store Ads you'll be aware that when an app developer runs ads in there. Apple will tell you how many people install with LAT on and LAT off. So they still provide that 'app installed' event that they're stopping other advertisers from being able to do.
The final option on 'Settings > Privacy > Advertising' shows you apples advertising knowledge about you, and what it uses for targeting within it's own apps. And those settings are still buried in that spot in iOS14.
Keeping in mind this is an ad supported website, where macrumours receives revenue from display advertising and affiliate links. Free stuff has to be paid for somehow.
The changes in ios14 remove access in most cases to the 'IDFA' (Identifier for Advertisers) unless consent is given - and let's face it - no one will. The IDFA was specifically brought by Apple for the purpose of confirming who installed an app because they saw an ad, or who took action on an ad in an app.
So if you're a developer and you publish a free app, which is ad supported. The people paying you to run your ads (via Facebook or Google, or any other in app ad publishing network) need to know that someone has actually seen or clicked your ad before they pay you. If that can't be done - the advertiser isn't going to pay you. So you have no income.
If you're a developer of an app, and you're trying to encourage people to install it - so running ads -with out the IDFA you'll struggle to understand how many actual installs you achieve for the money you pay - and therefore improve the efficiency of the advertising to promote your app. For startups and apps that need to grow this makes it very hard.
It's not all about targeting, it's also about attribution.
Oh and don't forget...this does nothing to stop the developer of the app tracking what you do inside the app...or if they include the Facebook SDK in their app which LOTS of apps do (https://www.macrumors.com/2020/07/10/facebook-sdk-ios-apps-crash/). It still isn't going to stop Zuck and his empire knowing what you're doing.
Final note. You can already do this without iOS 14.
Go to 'Settings > Privacy > Advertising' and you have some options that are rarely talked about in the apple world.
You can turn on 'Limit Ad Tracking' (LAT) which basically masks your IDFA
Or you can reset it to a new number - so anyone who previously knew who you were from an ad perspective won't any more.
Now apple aren't whiter than white here...Because if you know anything about Apple App Store Ads you'll be aware that when an app developer runs ads in there. Apple will tell you how many people install with LAT on and LAT off. So they still provide that 'app installed' event that they're stopping other advertisers from being able to do.
The final option on 'Settings > Privacy > Advertising' shows you apples advertising knowledge about you, and what it uses for targeting within it's own apps. And those settings are still buried in that spot in iOS14.
I’m running an ad blocker and anti-tracking tools (including on iOS) and I don’t see any ads 😎
The comparison was that the ad industry survived just fine before they could have tracking ads.
What do you mean "No" ? of course it will hurt Facebook ,if i have a 10K ad budget and i spread it around Facebook/Google/Newspaper/Whatever and Facebook are not efficient anymore for clicks per $ , then ill go elsewhere with my ad money.
I have at least one friend who has said that this news might be the final reason for her to switch to an iPhone.
Ironically, she said it on Facebook.
Life Log is Facebook, Facebook is Life Log.
Look it up.
You are being spied on, and it's not for advertising purposes.
Look it up.
You are being spied on, and it's not for advertising purposes.
Pro Tip: if you want even more protection than what Safari will now provide, set up a raspberry pi with pi-hole. It’ll catch whatever you choose that slips through. And if you install the unbound service you can remove your ISP or other DNS point from capturing your DNS requests. Sure, your ISP still knows which IP addresses you point to but it removes another place from storing your info.
I'll second the pi-hole vote! Mine sits there and faithfully blocks the vast majority of ads for the entire house, all devices.