i highly doubt it. apple can track you bc they care about your privacy. facebook can't because they aren't apple i mean dont care about your privacy
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Facebook Says Apple's Upcoming Anti-Tracking Prompt is 'More About Profit Than Privacy' [Updated]
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Please explain. Facebook makes a business of gobbling up everything about you, targeting ads, and selling your data. You are leveling a charge (seemingly baselessly) against Apple for doing the same. Please back it up with actual facts. Thank you
It's the best of both worlds. Privacy for us and profit for Apple.
Btw... never a better time to get off social media. Cancel that Facebook account. You don't need it.
Btw... never a better time to get off social media. Cancel that Facebook account. You don't need it.
One individual stated that since Apple was a hardware company, and didn’t rely on as revenue for a large part of its earnings, it wasn’t an issue. Why isn’t it? Shouldn’t these rules be applied universally? As tracking is as tracking. Whether it’s your business or it’s a small amount of your revenue stream. At least the op out option should exist. If you want Apple to track you, fine - allow them to track you.
You're one of those people who blocks ads using any means necessary, then continues to consume "free" ad-supported content.
What kind of screwy thinking is this? Do you pay Facebook for using their app? Do you pay Facebook for the free advertising they do for every business on there? Crazy thinking. Of course they are going to monetize you!!!! You are using a free service and expecting them to not make any money. How about you go into your job today and tell your boss, "Hi boss I am going to start working for you for free. I don't want to make any money off of my hard work"
Says the company who’s new privacy label looks like this:
Apple has announced it will abide by the same privacy requirements as third party apps. It already doesn’t track you
Is that what they are referring to, out of interest in terms of Apple?
Temper, temper. It is one thing to show you ads like free Spotify and quite another to mine your personal data
Yes that is what I am saying. All the Apple evangelists on here are saying it's not a big deal that Apple doesn't have to abide by the regulations. It shouldn't matter if 1% of your income is from advertising or 99% is. Everyone should have to follow the regulations. Apple makes rules all the time and then very conveniently excludes themselves from those rules because "it's our platform".
Then explain why Apple's own apps are not going to have the same disclaimer that all other companies are. Explain why Apple's ad platform is not going to abide by the same rules that every other company has to.
Yeah, it's not like Apple explains in the iOS settings that they don't track you for ads.
Oh wait.
They do:
Facebook is bad because they serve up ads and create a profile on you to sell to advertisers, even if you never once use Facebook or open a facebook account. Even if you never go to facebook.com, they know who you are, and without actively blocking them they will track everything you do on the internet.
Apple may be just as bad with their planned obsolescence, but I understand that you can't support hardware indefinitely and I'm okay with that. I also choose to use Apple devices, and if I leave the Apple ecosystem Apple doesn't track me.
Small businesses might still benefit from non-targeted advertising vs less relevant. The problem here is how much information they collect in order to make it targeted advertising. We can also have a global anonymous way to select our preferences, without tracking everything that I do.
I abandoned Facebook 8 years ago - never looked back
In order to avoid "pot meet kettle" situation, probably yes. However, I do feel Apple already has another way of dealing with targeting advertising if they are proposing the change.
It's not a problem for a single human being on the planet. This is the easiest problem in history to solve. Don't like Facebook's business model, DON'T USE THE SERVICE. I guarantee that everyone on here acting self righteous and complaining about "Muh Privacy" still use Facebook.
Facebook is behaving like a little child / Epic Games.
Their campaign is about profit. Their profit.
Their campaign is about profit. Their profit.
Read the article again. Apple's own ad platform is not subject to the same rules. And since when has Apple followed all the rules it sets for other companies?
You opt out of Apple by not buying their products. Feel free to go elsewhere and complain about cultists.
So what do Facebook want? The ability to track you unimpeded until the end of time?? No. If it’s a toss up between trusting Apple or Facebook over privacy, then I know who I trust. And it’s not Facebook.
Ladies and gentlemen, a Facebook investor.