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.
Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules
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#22> Some apps, like Facebook, allow for some data tracking to be manually disabled. But by default, it is turned on. That gives the company reams of personal data on who we are and what we are doing, which it then vacuums up, packages and sells. My understanding is that Facebook does not sell this data, but rather lets advertisers create hyper-targeted ads, which are only possible because of this data. Edit: Certainly…
I would attribute this to the "packaging" the article references. As you correctly point out advertisers don't want "the data" they want the hyper-targeted ads that it allows. That's the FB value-add.
I agree, with the addition that Facebook wants to keep control of their user data and repeatedly sell it via ads, rather than directly sell it to some third party org to repackage.
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#23Not a fan of a lot of things Apple but this is damn amusing. Hope Facebook's efforts fall flat on their face
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#24You forgot the ? in the title, and made it click bait
Hacker News automatically strips question-words and question-punctuation from titles, to avoid click-bait.
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#25You forgot the ? in the title, and made it click bait
It's the "why is" in the original title that makes it not substantively different from the headline here. Both make the assumption facebook is in fact going to war
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#26Apple 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…
A lot of people would rather have Myspace be the dominant social network it once was.
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#27> Some apps, like Facebook, allow for some data tracking to be manually disabled. But by default, it is turned on. That gives the company reams of personal data on who we are and what we are doing, which it then vacuums up, packages and sells. My understanding is that Facebook does not sell this data, but rather lets advertisers create hyper-targeted ads, which are only possible because of this data. Edit: Certainly…
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...
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#29I don't think there will be such thing as a war. Rules are the same for every company, Apple are just telling FB in advance that they are not making an exception.
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#30If personalized ads are really so beneficial to their customers, Facebook should have no problem convincing them to allow the tracking they need and opt-in.