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Twitter CFO: Apple's App Tracking Transparency Changes 'Level the Playing Field'
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The article said Twitter does not rely *heavily* on device ID, which is why the change will cause them *less* pain than it does to Facebook, Google, etc. Nuances matter.
The problem with AdGuard is that *they* see ALL of your traffic, which means you really have to trust them.
This is why I prefer ad blockers in Safari and Little Snitch system wide, because that way, all the filtering happens locally on my machine instead of on someone else's servers.
How about tracking them by the Twitter user account they are logged into? People might reveal enough about them by what they tweet, whom they follow and which tweets they like such that Twitter doesn't need to much cross-platform tracking.
All of these social media platforms are junk. The world would be better off without them.
Can someone ELIA5 why Twitter is getting flak here? Like besides the general fact that all these companies suck, I feel like Twitter is basically saying they are fine with Apple trying to protect users data? I got impression from this they are saying they aren't as mercilessly reliant on personal data as Facebook so will deal with it as it comes.
Seems like Twitter knows what they're doing...
Ya, but then they still are a social site.. To me, that comes first... How do we know this is only to please users now, then when everyone seems happy, they silently do the same as FB ? Is better for companis to do that kind of thing anyway if your goal is the same as another social site... We don't know whats their plans are long-term.
May as well be cautious now
Ya, but then they still are a social site.. To me, that comes first... How do we know this is only to please users now, then when everyone seems happy, they silently do the same as FB ? Is better for companis to do that kind of thing anyway if your goal is the same as another social site... We don't know whats their plans are long-term.
May as well be cautious now
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I was forced to give my phone number to Samsung just to configure my soundbar with their stupid app (their excuse is 2FA, which is wildly impractical in my case as my phone number changes roughly once every 3-4 years).
The app also forced me to set Location to "always". I am THIS close to reporting them to Apple.
Except Apple also needs a phone number now too when signing up for an AppleiD once you hit OSX Sierra and above.
Anyway, you can't blame for what a service demands or changes, based on where you use it.. It Twitter app was on Google app store discussion, we'd have much less of an issue i bet with location info on twitter... but we only say this because its with Apple.
"Twitter" itself always stays the same, yet have different views based on which device we use it on. Perhps were attacking this from the wrong angle ...
