Apple: Apps should not require users to opt into tracking to access content

Re:Apple: Apps should not require users to opt into tracking... by izacus on Friday September 11, 2020 @05:34PM (#24447555)

They advertise a whole product which draws all this tracking data as nice graphs to developers: https://developer.apple.com/app-store-connect/analytics/

It's essentially Google Analytics, just for apps on iOS.

Where do you think those "Daily active devices" data comes from?

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Re:Apple: Apps should not require users to opt into tracking... by anater on Friday September 11, 2020 @05:52PM (#24447736)

Users must opt in though. It’s part of the iOS set up to allow this and you can change it any time

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Re:Apple: Apps should not require users to opt into tracking... by lern_too_spel on Friday September 11, 2020 @06:33PM (#24448033)

This setting is opt out, not opt-in. It's unclear if opting out hides the data from Apple or just from the app developers.

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Re:Apple: Apps should not require users to opt into tracking... by Nextgrid on Friday September 11, 2020 @10:50PM (#24449402)

It is opt-in now; when setting up iOS for the first time it asks you if you'd like to enable "iPhone analytics" (OS-wide analytics for Apple) and if you accept then it asks you whether you want to share the analytical data with the app developers.

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Re:Apple: Apps should not require users to opt into tracking... by Dahoon on Friday September 11, 2020 @10:16PM (#24449285)

It's opt out.

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Re:Apple: Apps should not require users to opt into tracking... by saagarjha on Saturday September 12, 2020 @03:45AM (#24450693)

No, it’s opt in when you set up your device.

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