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One thing that removes a lot of credibility from Apple's "for the good of the user" communication on this is that they broke out the personalization for their own ad network as an option, put it in a different location, and made it opt-out instead of opt-in. https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/08/07/apple-a...
One could argue that the initial policy was anti competitive because it artificially inflated Apple's offering over its competitors...
This is unfortunate. Adtech is a cancer. We don't need to give it time to adapt, we need to shut it down.
Do you realize the number of free services that one uses thanks to ads? Not everyone can afford to pay for these. I for one use gmail, google maps, google calendar, google docs, etc. Every day
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Do you realize the number of free services that one uses thanks to ads? Not everyone can afford to pay for these. I for one use gmail, google maps, google calendar, google docs, etc. Every day
There are plenty of free alternatives to Google that don’t rely on ads and respect your privacy.
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Do you realize the number of free services that one uses thanks to ads? Not everyone can afford to pay for these. I for one use gmail, google maps, google calendar, google docs, etc. Every day
Do you realize how much bullshit people buy that they do not need because of ads? People end up with much less money because of that. And the environment suffers too. And no, without apps people would be able to discover new things. Current ads are not about facts but connecting feelings with products.
This is unfortunate. Adtech is a cancer. We don't need to give it time to adapt, we need to shut it down.
This is unfortunate. Adtech is a cancer. We don't need to give it time to adapt, we need to shut it down.
Ads will definitely not disappear, only the tracking aspect. It will be more contextual ads probably, related to what page your are looking at, less related to you as an individual.
While the delay does disappoint me as a user, I can definitely understand the "give developers more time" angle. It seems doubtful to me that big ad tech hasn't already been working on ways to circumvent this policy and it feels like a few extra months won't exactly make a world of difference for them. I do hope this gives the "little guy" more time to rethink Ad strategy to not involve tracking.
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Do you realize the number of free services that one uses thanks to ads? Not everyone can afford to pay for these. I for one use gmail, google maps, google calendar, google docs, etc. Every day
Do you realize that you can have ads subsidizing free services without any tracking or using any third-party services?
Zuck probably begged Tim
Zuck needs this least of all - people post their lives to FB via Instagram, all you need is a high quality, high cardinality object detector, and some NLP. For ads shown on e.g. Instagram or FB, there should be no impact at all. Google could mine Photos I suppose, but there's no user graph there, and no text blurb, and no "likes", so it's less valuable. Google is also more reliant on tracking due to DoubleClick and a…
I also wonder why, because their apps already require a user to sign in. It must reference to cross-app tracking, I'm also surprised they were so dependent on that.