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Re:Apple to delay privacy change threatening Facebook, mobil... by matthewmacleod on Thursday September 03, 2020 @03:09PM (#24367582)
If you just flat out ban shit without nuanced understanding

I’m sure you appreciate the irony of this given your “banning invasive tracking will be the end of civilisation” shtick.

Let’s compromise and permit advertising generally, while absolutely working as hard as possible to crush creepy and abusive practices, like secretly tracking individuals without their permission. Seems like everybody could reasonably sign up to that.

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Re:Apple to delay privacy change threatening Facebook, mobil... by GekkePrutser on Thursday September 03, 2020 @03:04PM (#24367522)
Showing some ads is one thing. Tracking every aspect of people's lives is another entirely. And that's what adtech has only become since the internet enabled it to do so.
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Re:Apple to delay privacy change threatening Facebook, mobil... by criddell on Thursday September 03, 2020 @03:11PM (#24367604)
You're equating ad-tech with advertising. They aren't the same thing.
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Re:Apple to delay privacy change threatening Facebook, mobil... by baddox on Thursday September 03, 2020 @03:02PM (#24367503)
> If you just flat out ban shit without nuanced understanding, you hurt people more than help.

Absolutely. We should have understanding and we ban shit that is harmful.

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Re:Apple to delay privacy change threatening Facebook, mobil... by monadic2 on Thursday September 03, 2020 @03:21PM (#24367717)
Most of humanity's ills have been around for a long time.
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Re:Apple to delay privacy change threatening Facebook, mobil... by akerro on Thursday September 03, 2020 @03:14PM (#24367638)
OH no, I'm so sorry for ads now. Poor, poor ads, let's make it easy for them to be more annoying and less regulated for once after years of being intrusive, bringing malware, tracking people across portals and devices, and still being flipping unreliable.
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Re:Apple to delay privacy change threatening Facebook, mobil... by dcdevito on Thursday September 03, 2020 @03:04PM (#24367526)
Good riddance to that, I say. Ad tech is bad user experience, period. We don’t need it. Don’t try to belittle someone for their opinion. Ass.
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