Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous efforts to protect privacy

Re:Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous effort... by mattmanser on Thursday August 27, 2020 @10:00AM (#24293776)

I'm absolutely fine with this though.

I don't want to be stalked online, and I'll raise a glass over their bankruptcy notices.

Also, forcing users to login may also be in breach of GDPR, if you don't have a good reason to need a login, you're unnecessarily collecting personal information.

One obvious example of this is NVidia, you've paid for the card, yet they force you to login to use their apps.

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Re:Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous effort... by thor24 on Friday August 28, 2020 @01:13AM (#24301558)

I also game for this. Let's see how this evolves.

One thing I am curious to see (how it pans out) is if device fingerprinting (IP + Device+ Some other attributes etc. to map you) evolves to solve this problem.

In my experience, it is pretty bad (at best 30% compared to IDFA/Device Id solutions) but I see few companies pitching this as an alternative.

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Re:Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous effort... by smolder on Thursday August 27, 2020 @01:25PM (#24296058)

Another example is Razer, who thinks you should need an internet connected, tied-to-a-person app to configure your mouse buttons. I'll never buy or recommend another product from them in any category.

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