Live data from Hacker News

Preparing Our Partners for iOS 14

facebook.com

1–10 of 311 posts

Re: Preparing Our Partners for iOS 14

#2
>We believe that industry consultation is critical for changes to platform policies, as these updates have a far-reaching impact on the developer ecosystem. We’re encouraged by conversations and efforts already taking place in the industry - including within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the recently announced Partnership for Responsible Addressable Media (PRAM). We look forward to continuing to engage with these industry groups to get this right for people and small businesses.

Yes they would certainly prefer a "UN of ad-tech" that doesn't do anything rather than Apple's unilateral action.

Re: Preparing Our Partners for iOS 14

#3
> We believe that industry consultation is critical for changes to platform policies, as these updates have a far-reaching impact on the developer ecosystem.

Why should platform makers consult the advertising industry? It's not like the advertising industry consulted anybody before they started collecting every bit of data they could.

Re: Preparing Our Partners for iOS 14

#4
post #3

> We believe that industry consultation is critical for changes to platform policies, as these updates have a far-reaching impact on the developer ecosystem. Why should platform makers consult the advertising industry? It's not like the advertising industry consulted anybody before they started collecting every bit of data they could.

Because many of the people developing apps for their platform rely on advertising revenue to pay the bills?

Re: Preparing Our Partners for iOS 14

#5
The wording here is subtly different from the text they reportedly emailed out - https://twitter.com/rjonesy/status/1298662658934222848

Notably, it omits the line saying they won't use the prompt in their own apps (which they'd be required to do whether or not they used IDFA) and omits the advice that implies their customers should figure out other ways to gather identifying information

Re: Preparing Our Partners for iOS 14

#6

The wording here is subtly different from the text they reportedly emailed out - https://twitter.com/rjonesy/status/1298662658934222848 Notably, it omits the line saying they won't use the prompt in their own apps (which they'd be required to do whether or not they used IDFA) and omits the advice that implies their customers should figure out other ways to gather identifying information

The response to that is to just not allow them to update their app until they comply.

Re: Preparing Our Partners for iOS 14

#7
post #3

> We believe that industry consultation is critical for changes to platform policies, as these updates have a far-reaching impact on the developer ecosystem. Why should platform makers consult the advertising industry? It's not like the advertising industry consulted anybody before they started collecting every bit of data they could.

It’s also a conflict of interest: when they’re interacting with that industry and advocating for things are they doing so on behalf of selling ads for Facebook or for the publishers on their platform?

Re: Preparing Our Partners for iOS 14

#8
post #4
post #3

> We believe that industry consultation is critical for changes to platform policies, as these updates have a far-reaching impact on the developer ecosystem. Why should platform makers consult the advertising industry? It's not like the advertising industry consulted anybody before they started collecting every bit of data they could.

Because many of the people developing apps for their platform rely on advertising revenue to pay the bills?

[deleted]
Post reply on HN