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Mozilla Launches Petition Urging Apple to Reset Interest-Based Ad Identifiers on Monthly Basis
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How did they do it before we all had computers in our pocket?
You absolutely definitely do not. I can guarantee you that last statement is the most hypocritical thing you will say all day.
I'd prefer that Amazon would push me tech toys and things that I actually like, rather than things I'll never buy. It doesn't speak well for their AI.
They didn't exist. And the ones that did are going out of business. Or haven't you noticed?
However they did it, it was done much more poorly than today. I allow third parties to track my data because it's worth it for me. I get much more relevant search results, adverts, and content than I did before companies learned to use that data as effectively as they do today.
You do what? Surely you've died from this at least 6 times already. /s
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Exactly.
Why not eliminate it completely? Why should there be a unique identifier? But if they don't remove it completely, default it to reset weekly and allow the user to change how often it resets (down to every second if they want)
The privacy zealots don't realize there's nothing new about today's profiling and targeted advertising. Improved, yes. New, no. Who wants the alternative: random ads for things that are irrelevant to you, or even offensive?
Apple is betraying people's trust by advertising its limited privacy measures in a manner than implies privacy in every sense of the word. If they continue to fuel that perception, it won't surprise me if eventually they are sued for misleading people. They, and other consumer tech companies, would be wise to sell the world on the merits of their tracking inventions, and guarantee that sacred subjects, such as one's health, won't be profiled.
Apple needs more revenue and the unimaginative and easy way to get a lot of it is from selling ads or user information. This is where the real services revenue growth will be. The announcing of online magazines, TV, and games are diversions.
The privacy double double standards by some posters is hilarious! Usually they can obfuscate it because apple doesn't say anything itself but recently it's been energetically pushing the privacy shtick. Sheep are there to be sheared.
The privacy double double standards by some posters is hilarious! Usually they can obfuscate it because apple doesn't say anything itself but recently it's been energetically pushing the privacy shtick. Sheep are there to be sheared.
I agree. I think people are trying to go dark, which basically means going off the grid. I'm happy enough to go cloudy, where some info leaks out but more general. I use an ad blocker and a cookie manager on my Mac which deletes tracking cookies when I quit Safari.
You don't get junk (snail) mail?
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You do know that Apple publishes a paper describing in detail their security procedures. I believe it covers data collection by Apple. Good reading.
https://www.apple.com/business/site/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
Oh good, that must be the default demographic then. Being a middle aged woman who lives in the south, I can never be sure.
I reset the ad identifier when I think about it, which is maybe three or four times a year. I remember on this forum a few years ago I wasn’t doing anything to stop ad tracking or ad blocking. We got on a thread about ad blocking and joked about men’s underwear. I was haunted by an ad for men’s briefs on this site for ages.
That finally was the incentive for me to finally get some protection for my browsers.No you don't .
You get slightly more relevant ads , because your user data is sold to various marketing agencies, Google, etc . .
The data that doesn't make them money won't be used .
Everything else is bubble content - you have to do research for relevant information, as the algorythms are confined to that small subset of basic data that the big players are able to handle - and it will only get you what you already have - hence a bubble .
I suspect at least some of the people objecting here have websites monetized with Google AdSense and are unhappy with the decreasing rate of return.
With “Limit Ad Tracking” enabled, that number is literally a bunch of zeros.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/adsupport/asidentifiermanager
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/adsupport/asidentifiermanager
Mine was set to be limited long long time ago when this was last bright up by a competing or security concern when the iPhone 6 debuted. Reset thanks Mozilla for the notification.
Now Mozilla what are YOU doing in your browsers to have this done automatically?!