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Re:Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules by zepto on Friday February 26, 2021 @11:05PM (#26282473)
Not really.

Google built a super successful ad business on search terms alone, long before they got into user tracking.

Do you have any evidence that Apple tracks users for their ad business - which only sells ads for apps when users search for them?

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Re:Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules by throw_away892 on Saturday February 27, 2021 @12:19AM (#26282853)
Check their ad business brief - https://searchads.apple.com/

As requested, evidence of tracking in iPhones - https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2020/11/16/appl...

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Re:Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules by zepto on Saturday February 27, 2021 @12:57AM (#26283008)
> As requested, evidence of tracking in iPhones

That isn’t evidence of Apple tracking anything.

IDFA is used by Facebook and ad-tech companies.

Apple are switching IDFA to be Opt-In rather than opt out.

That’s what Facebook is complaining about.

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Re:Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules by throw_away892 on Saturday February 27, 2021 @01:07AM (#26283052)
> IDFA

The mechanism for tracking users is already present. What more proof do you need?

Even if you manage to toggle 3rd parties out of your phone. You cannot toggle the Apple out of it.

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Re:Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules by zepto on Saturday February 27, 2021 @10:39AM (#26285497)
> The mechanism for tracking users is already present. What more proof do you need?

Evidence that Apple uses it.

The mechanism relies on libraries which send user behavior from other app to Facebook. These are correlated by the ID.

The identifier is not the mechanism. The mechanism is Facebook’s library.

Apple has no such mechanism.

> You cannot toggle the Apple out of it

False.

There is a toggle for the entire feature.

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