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Re:Apple surpassed $3.5B in annual revenue from its ad network by bengale on Friday August 19, 2022 @11:53AM (#32522573)
They do though, they've asked me on the iPhone if I want to have personalised ads, and I said no. Now I don't get personalised ads.
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Re:Apple surpassed $3.5B in annual revenue from its ad network by forestwisp on Friday August 19, 2022 @12:10PM (#32522824)
This implies collecting data for ad personalization is the only means through each Apple tracks you, which clearly isn't the case [1]. Some interesting keypoints posted here before: [2]

As it currently stands, there is no way to "opt out" of being tracked by Apple.

[1] https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

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