Google-backed groups criticize Apple's new warnings on user tracking

Post by js2 » Fri, Jul 03, 2020, 10:52 PM UTC

angott wrote: post #208

js2 wrote: post #140

I wish the Safari content blocking API allowed cookies to be blocked. I'd block cookies for 99% of sites I visit, allowing them only for the handful of sites to which I login. I'd suggest Safari could even make cookies require getting user permission, the same way location access needs to be granted. "Allow, allow for 24 hours, deny." It could default deny except for sites to which it has a saved password which could…

It already does that! 1Blocker lets you specify a list of websites for which cookies won't be sent in the request headers. So I suppose the API indeed supports this feature.

Post by ssequeira » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 12:05 AM UTC

izacus wrote: post #4

> Sixteen marketing associations, some of which are backed by Facebook Inc (FB.O) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google, faulted Apple for not adhering to an ad-industry system for seeking user consent under European privacy rules. How did this turn into "Google-backed groups"?! Where's Facebook in the title? Is there no attempt at unbiased reporting anymore?

Post by orangecat » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 1:31 AM UTC

scarface74 wrote: post #209

orangecat wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want products where you give the company money and they give you stuff - buy Apple. The "stuff" tends to come with artificial limitations so that in order to use it effectively I have to give Apple even more money.

Which product comes with “artificial limitations” that force you to give Apple more money?

Post by influx » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 4:23 AM UTC

duckfruit wrote: post #191

crazygringo wrote: post #68

> Apple last week disclosed features in its forthcoming operating system for iPhones and iPads that will require apps to show a pop-up screen before they enable a form of tracking commonly needed to show personalized ads. Christ almighty I don't think I can take more pop-ups. They're just cancer. Cookies, newsletters, forced logins, individual folder permissions... how many bullshit popups do I have to deal with per…

Unfortunately the ubiquitous cookie consent warnings reek of design-by-government-committe suffers greatly for it. In theory, what could possibly be wrong with explicitly warning users that they're being tracked with a hidden piece of data stored on their machines? However, in practice this has just led to a proliferation of popups on every website on earth. I'd bet that pretty much everyone just annoyingly clicks th…

Post by baryphonic » Sat, Jul 04, 2020, 6:29 AM UTC

humaniania wrote: post #178

baryphonic wrote: post #147

> Sixteen marketing associations, some of which are backed by Facebook Inc (FB.O) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google, faulted Apple for not adhering to an ad-industry system for seeking user consent under European privacy rules. Apps will now need to ask for permission twice, increasing the risk users will refuse, the associations argued. I was taken aback when I read that sixteen(!) agencies had banded together, in…

Do you seriously think that all business decisions are based on economic greed? Some people do have values and morality and integrity.