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Thank you Apple for being one of the few protecting privacy
Apple would be a hero for threatening _its own_ significant revenue streams with a pro-privacy decision, not someone else's.
A doctor giving someone a new lease on life with an arm transplant isn't a hero unless they're threatening _their own_ arm by volunteering it.
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In what world do things work like that?
Good on Apple. I fear if it was any other company Facebook would be able to persuade them to change.
And I think most users will see no problem with this.
If I value the service enough, I'll pay for it. That Apple gets 30% is another discussion and as a user, not my problem.
If I don't value the service that much, I now get to be informed and can decide whether I value using it more than my privacy. Facebook's all out propaganda campaign shows which choice they think most users will make in this instance.
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It's a nice bit of semantic ju-jitsu to say "they take this data and sell a service that wouldn't be possible without it" isn't the same as "selling this data," isn't it? Especially given that the targeting mechanisms don't have any k-anonymity guarantees, and I'm aware of at least one paper showing information leaks through the ad portal [1] https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/public_events/122...
Seems to me like you're more playing "semantic ju-jitsu" than OP. Facebook collect data to sell targetted adspace, they do not sell data. This is a plain fact.
In the future, you'll get to choose whether your phone vendor sells your data or censors what content you can access on it. It's gonna be great.
The fact that Facebook appears to consider user consent an existential threat to their business model tells me everything I need to know about them right now.
It's not just them. Anyone who still has the wrong assumption that targeted advertising even works is in for a massive revelation.
The interesting question is much tracking adds on top of simpler targeting based on location and context.
Apple should be applauded for this. Their revenue does not depend on software to clandestinely steal and sell users data. One day, we will look back at history and see facebook similar as to how people view myspace now (junkyard of software). Good on Apple not selling devices with a facebook backdoor in them. I know apple probably has deals with malicious governments regarding data access, but at least they are stand…
Between this privacy fight and the form factor of the iPhone Mini, there's a 90% chance my next phone will be an iPhone after more than a decade on Android. I'm done with this ad-sponsored trash ecosystem.
Even my SSO works well enough. Some notifications rely on Google Play Services though, but I find I don't really miss those apps anyway.
They can just never update their app again, like Google. Let's be real, their ADHD like update schedule isn't exactly improving anything regardless.
I believe this impacts all apps using Facebook's SDK.
I think they got it coming.