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A comment on Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone by eivarv on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @07:56AM (#25429820) 

    Now that the third-party tracking ecosystem is slowly drying out I'm curious what advertisers will come up with to circumvent these new measures.
Probably fingerprinting – not to mention the fact that ad-people are lobbying both legislators (including the EU) and standards bodies (like W3C)... and in the latter case they're also directly contributing to the standards.
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Re:Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone by cafebabbe on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @08:10AM (#25429916)
Most adtech players are legit and don't rely on such practices, illegal in many countries.

Of course some smaller one will still try to do it, don't get me wrong.

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Re:Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone by eivarv on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @08:36AM (#25430138)
Well, there's the entire field of databroking (likely completely illegal under GDPR, not to mention unethical from the start) and real time bidding related to this.

Given the sorry state of privacy-compliance in general (whether that's ignorance of the law or consciously taking a risk) I seriously doubt that the field of adtech is much better.

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