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Facebook says Apple’s new iPhone update will disrupt online advertising

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Re: Facebook says Apple’s new iPhone update will disrupt online advertising

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So maybe we will stop being put into echo chambers and radicalized to hate our neighbors? Maybe we will stop having so many clickbait articles written by journalists? Other business models for the win!

People like echo chambers, they go out of their way to self select into them.

Re: Facebook says Apple’s new iPhone update will disrupt online advertising

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This change seems like it will have the unintended consequence of transferring more power into the hands of large advertisers.

For one, this breaks company's (advertiser's and 3rd party data aggregator's) ability to link customers to campaigns, which effectively pushes measurement back to the advertising platform who have an inherent conflict of interest. They are selling the ads, and telling you how efficient the ads are.

Additionally, the only companies that can do battle with Apple to find loopholes/engineering solutions to this change are the companies that are (a) very large, (b) have the resources and talent to throw at the problem. There are several third party data providers that are basically toast now.

Edit: I don't work for FB, but I do build ML lifetime values models, which will get much harder after this change is made.

Re: Facebook says Apple’s new iPhone update will disrupt online advertising

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post #12

Can somebody tell what changes are they talking specifically?

I believe it refers to the addition in iOS 14 where users have to explicitly opt-in to being tracked by advertisers. The ad industry is expecting most users to decline to be tracked, hence limiting the usefulness of targeted ads.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/22/apple-ios-14-ad-tracking/

Re: Facebook says Apple’s new iPhone update will disrupt online advertising

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post #12

Can somebody tell what changes are they talking specifically?

Apple has come down hard on the privacy aspect of their Brand to differentiate them.

In this specific example things like AppleSignIn with the option of using a fake/relay email while signing in.

Facebook proposed a similar system but then abondoned it when they realized it harmed their business model.

Re: Facebook says Apple’s new iPhone update will disrupt online advertising

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post #12

Can somebody tell what changes are they talking specifically?

Based on https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/26/facebook-apple-ios-14-could-...

It seems to be the unique ID used for targeted advertising. iOS 14 requires user opt-in before the IDFA can be used by third-party apps for advertising. This, I believe, is what Facebook is crying foul about.

Re: Facebook says Apple’s new iPhone update will disrupt online advertising

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post #11
post #4

So maybe we will stop being put into echo chambers and radicalized to hate our neighbors? Maybe we will stop having so many clickbait articles written by journalists? Other business models for the win!

People like echo chambers, they go out of their way to self select into them.

Do they go out of their way, or do they naturally gravitate to like-minded people?
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