Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions

Re:Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions by nitwit005 on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @06:34PM (#16111186)

If you gave people the offer of "you have to let companies search through your financial details, but you'll get more free mobile games", how many people do you think would take you up on it? I'm sure some would, but it'd hardly be popular.

Stuff like this comes about organically. No one held a big meeting and decided the internet would be funded by privacy invading ads. The ad ecosystem just shifted that way over time due to competition.

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Re:Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions by fpoling on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @07:30PM (#16111548)

This is not the choice the users get. The profit from tracking goes disproportionally to Google/Facebook, not creators of mobile games. So more tracking like financial information will make that disbalance even worse making it rather pointless for mobile game industry.

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Re:Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions by user5994461 on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @01:56AM (#16113024)

There are a lot of dollars taken besides Google and Facebook.

Before there was internet, companies already spent all their marketing dollars on stupid TV and radio ads.

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Re:Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions by EgoIncarnate on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @07:23PM (#16111498)

Exactly. I hope at some point we are going to have to ask how much is too much because left to it's own devices the market answer seems to be "enough to not be obviously creepy".

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