Re:Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone
by closeparen on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @02:41PM
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Banning devices and identifying groups of accounts which are linked by common devices are two of the most powerful tools that my company’s fraud team talks about. We have nothing to do with advertising. YMMV.
Re:Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone
by ogre_codes on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @02:57PM
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The advertising identifier is a crappy way to do this though. There are multiple more privacy respecting ways to ban users which work much better. The IDFA can be blanked or reset where other methods like identifierForVendor cannot be reset or bypassed.
As someone alt-tabbing in from real fraud investigation work, no, it doesn't. Banning burner phones and reducing banking privacy regulations would move the needle there, but those aren't even on the radar.
"Someone's script opened a page" isn't fraud. Someone built a script specifically to spam click a competitor's ads, by contrast, is.