Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B

Re:Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B by Dyac on Friday February 04, 2022 @04:07PM (#30213212)

That's really interesting, I'm going to check our analytics to see if the same thing is happening.

Another way you could potentially get around it is to fingerprint the user and store the basket contents server side and present them to that fingerprint.

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Re:Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B by nsp on Friday February 04, 2022 @04:24PM (#30213472)

It's fairly hard to uniquely fingerprint iOS devices, there aren't that many configuration options, most people use the stock browser etc.

Actually I suppose this may have changed since the introduction of safari extensions on ios? I haven't looked into this since that released

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Re:Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B by samwillis on Friday February 04, 2022 @04:20PM (#30213410)

We considered doing something like this but it would be very hard to ensure no false matches which could result in security compromises.

We also considered placing the session id in the url for the checkout, but again decided against due to security concerns.

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