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Re:Facebook’s ad campaign shows how worried it is about Appl... by darklion on Sunday February 28, 2021 @10:03AM (#26293840)
> Why aren't Apple's apps themselves also having to ask for permission?

If you look at the list of example reasons [1] that would require an app to ask for tracking permission, they are (broadly) in two buckets: correlating and/or consuming user data from multiple sources, and sharing data with a data broker for advertising purposes.

Apple does not share data outside of itself, and their apps do not display ads.

-- [1] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/user-privacy-and-data-...

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Re:Facebook’s ad campaign shows how worried it is about Appl... by tinus_hn on Sunday February 28, 2021 @11:34AM (#26294492)
To be honest some of their apps, like the Podcasts app do much more tracking. It is kind of described in the privacy policy but you can’t turn it off.
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Re:Facebook’s ad campaign shows how worried it is about Appl... by ViViDboarder on Sunday February 28, 2021 @11:00AM (#26294242)
At least not 3rd party ads. The App Store has ads for apps plus non-stop Arcade+ advertising. The News app is full of ads for News+ and loads of restricted links as well.

This is, however, very different, as you point out.

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Re:Facebook’s ad campaign shows how worried it is about Appl... by random5634 on Sunday February 28, 2021 @11:17AM (#26294364)
These do not rely on tracking or personalization - which is very obvious to me (I don't play games - and they constantly have game promotions etc).

Google gets this much better - with a ton of SAAS / biz focused apps. So I imagine google is tracking me somehow (I use google search / chrome etc) and apple does not seem to be doing that good a job.

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Re:Facebook’s ad campaign shows how worried it is about Appl... by 1f60c on Sunday February 28, 2021 @10:59AM (#26294240)
> their apps do not display ads

Except for the App Store and Apple News, AFAIK.

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Re:Facebook’s ad campaign shows how worried it is about Appl... by zepto on Sunday February 28, 2021 @11:02AM (#26294254)
Apple News doesn’t display Ads except the upsell for Apple news+. They don’t sell advertising on Apple News.

The App Store does display ads, but those are based on advertisers bidding for keywords in the search terms.

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