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That actually does make some sense, I do enjoy this infighting between Big Tech, since the user will ultimately benefit by seeing each companies true colors (and that includes the "Cult" Inc., not just Facebook)
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Except Apple doesn't track you all across the internet at every possible opportunity without you knowing about it.
Not yet. But they could start any time they wanted to. Who would save you then?
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Except Apple doesn't track you all across the internet at every possible opportunity without you knowing about it.
Not yet. But they could start any time they wanted to. Who would save you then?
I mean, it goes against the business model they operate under, but they could, right?
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It's not just them. Anyone who still has the wrong assumption that targeted advertising even works is in for a massive revelation.
Targeted ads don’t work any better then static ads. This is new for me. Actually now that I think about it, all evidence I remember at the moment is anecdotal. So perhaps you are right. Regardless of its efficacy, the legality should be out of the question.
Targeted ads work really well for many scenarios, b2b software.
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.
Apple taking on this issue is worthy of respect, but let's not pretend that Apple respects all user consent. They're constantly forcing things on their users with thinly veiled justifications like "security".
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Except Apple doesn't track you all across the internet at every possible opportunity without you knowing about it.
Not yet. But they could start any time they wanted to. Who would save you then?
They're clearly at least trying to move in the opposite direction and have been making those moves for some time now.
Maybe they won't always go that way. Maybe they will.
No one is saying they're our savior, though. No one is begging Apple to please save us.
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It's not just them. Anyone who still has the wrong assumption that targeted advertising even works is in for a massive revelation.
Why do you say this? What evidence? There are hundreds of thousands of businesses that happily pay for ads on Facebook over other platforms and see improved results after tweaking the targeting. The issue is the privacy loss we get, not the efficacy of targeting.
All that said, I am not an authority on if any evidence exists, I have never looked into the literature my self, so perhaps this evidence already exists and I just don’t know about it.
What does Facebook realistically expect to get out of this PR push? Apple seems to be doing nothing legally wrong. So, I'm guessing FB is trying to sway public opinion. But, does the public really care that much about the health of small businesses who advertise on Facebook?
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What is to stop Facebook from making a picture show up all fuzzy and then tell the user that they should opt-in to tracking to get the highest resolution pictures.
Apple's TOS surrounding this change prevent any sort of content-gating of this sort. Infractions may result in removal from the app store.