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Re:Privacy Sandbox on Android by yonixw on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @02:19PM (#30364460)
They are absolutely an ad company [1]. And they absolutely track stuff about you [2].

[1] https://pocketnow.com/apples-ad-business-5-billion-growth-ap...

[2] https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/01/android_ios_location/

"..According to Leith, Android and iOS handsets share data about their salient characteristics with their makers every 4.5 minutes on average."

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Re:Privacy Sandbox on Android by marcellus23 on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @04:31PM (#30366002)
According to https://searchads.apple.com/privacy, the only user information used when showing ads is:

* details provided in your Apple ID profile (location, email, etc.)

* history of App Store downloads and in-app purchases

* contextual information like "device type, iOS version, time of day, device location, and search query."

In other words, while there are some privacy concerns here (really just device location, I guess), it seems like Apple is just using data from the App Store itself to serve App Store ads. In other words, no different than if Facebook only used information about how you use the Facebook app/site, rather than tracking your behavior across the entire internet.

I'm curious why you think this is comparable to what Google/Facebook does.

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Re:Privacy Sandbox on Android by yonixw on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @03:33AM (#30425385)
You have the answer in your comment:

* history of App Store downloads AND ^^in-app purchases^^

So there is no difference in my opinion. Only PR jargon to make it sound better.

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