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Re:Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous effort... by izacus on Thursday August 27, 2020 @05:45AM (#24291805)
The strange thing is that they split the setting in two and happily left the "let Apple keep tracking you" as ON by default while leaving third party apps OFF by default.

A principled stance would just flip the default to OFF for both Apple and everyone else. With the strange treatment of developers on AppStore, I'm afraid they'll start abusing this to give edge to their own advertising on AppStore and elsewhere.

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Re:Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous effort... by SllX on Thursday August 27, 2020 @05:48AM (#24291825)
That would be a more principled stand. I didn’t know they had bifurcated it in that manner in the next OS release. Thank you for the heads up.
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Re:Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous effort... by pseudalopex on Thursday August 27, 2020 @01:10PM (#24295862)
iOS 14 has a prompt for third party tracking.[1] It isn't off by default.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/22/apple-ios-14-ad-tracking/

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