Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone

Post by lotsofpulp » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 1:13 PM UTC

ratherbefuddled wrote: post #102

lotsofpulp wrote: post #39

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I wonder if it would be profitable for Visa/Mastercard/Discover/AmEx to sell a verification service where people can authenticate with a $0.01 authorization or approval amount. Obviously, it wouldn't work with gift cards or other accounts not tied to a real person.

The answer to card fraud is called Strong Customer Authentication and it's a requirement under PSD2. It requires payment service providers to obtain a second factor for authentication. This might be an online banking login and approval, device data capture or an SMS one time code. How is up to the card provider.

Post by swiley » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 1:14 PM UTC

tenacious_tuna wrote: post #101

stefan_ wrote: post #79

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Fraud prevention? What exactly are you paying the Apple cut for?

I think they mean app-side: determining if a user is a bot or not gets harder when you can't tie that user to the datamine'd indicators of their humanity.

Post by rimliu » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 1:15 PM UTC

coldtea wrote: post #52

encom wrote: post #25

Support Free software instead, and stop begging Apple for permission to control what happens on hardware you own.

I don't want to own hardware and OS I don't like, even if I can control it fully. I'd rather have hardware and OS I like, even if I can't control some aspects of it. Of course a hardware/OS I like and which I control fully would be the holy grail (if the tradeoffs involved, e.g. it being FOSS, and thus underfunded for example, allowed for such a thing). Absent that, somewhere in between there is a nice balance for ea…

Post by rimliu » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 1:18 PM UTC

stinos wrote: post #28

robin_reala wrote: post #11

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You missed out the third option, which is ads relevent to the content they’re embedded in. This metaphor worked from 300 years ago through to 15 years ago with no problems.

Or the fourth one, no ads? I might be the minority but ads are wasted on me anyway (apart from the annoyance of seeing them).

Post by littlestymaar » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 1:20 PM UTC

confiq wrote: post #114

simonh wrote: post #103

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They only share data with partners at the direction of users and only to provide specific services, and use for marketing is banned. That privacy policy?

and Chinese iCloud with Chinese government...