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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.
I can forgive them for fighting to try and save their business model. But I can’t forgive them for dragging Grace Jones into the fight.
No, probably more like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWRlxSGf_ns
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.
Apple could have also built a business around tracking their users and selling targeted ads etc.
They have forgone all the revenues associated with such practices because in the long term, they think society won’t accept them.
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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 advertising works extremely well. I actually stopped using Instagram because the adverts were so accurate that it scared me.
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.
So interesting to see how more and more businesses realize they have a single point of failure for a billion dollars streams. What's even more interesting is that I don't think many considered those as threats 10 years ago.
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.
> 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…
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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.
That is the price Apple charges for providing payment-related services on its platform. It is not a tax.
I don't like the wording at all. "Ask app not to track" means an app can ignore a user's request, just like with "Do not track" on the web. The button should read "Deny", and the denial should be strictly enforced.