Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature

Re:Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature by Klonoar on Friday December 18, 2020 @04:45AM (#25465482)

I've interviewed with the iCloud/CloudKit teams and I'm reasonably certain that the way they dogfood it internally means that they use the same setup we do, where the same ID isn't persisted across applications.

People like to claim that Apple gets a free pass here but they legitimately do seem to build their apps more or less silo'd, as they should be.

If you want the soundbite: if Apple tracked you across apps, their recommendation systems (be it app store or whatever) wouldn't royally suck. But they do. ;P

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Re:Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature by lovecg on Friday December 18, 2020 @05:48AM (#25465857)

> If you want the soundbite: if Apple tracked you across apps, their recommendation systems (be it app store or whatever) wouldn't royally suck. But they do. ;P

It’s honestly a breath of fresh air. There’s no sleazy salesman vibe that comes with a lot of overly personalized recommendations.

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