Apple surpassed $3.5B in annual revenue from its ad network

Re:Apple surpassed $3.5B in annual revenue from its ad network by ksec on Friday August 19, 2022 @02:06PM (#32524280)

iCloud Private Relay, Hide my Email, all happened after the ATT (AppTrackingTransparency). And if you read ATT carefully it is designed fist and foremost against Ads. Not Privacy.

And the opt OUT of Personalised Ads? When did HN's narrative changed that opting out was ok? Or even Ads were not evil? I can assure you 95% of comments in the past 5 to 6 years on HN front page with Ads were all religiously Anti-Ads.

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Re:Apple surpassed $3.5B in annual revenue from its ad network by AlexandrB on Friday August 19, 2022 @02:21PM (#32524434)

I agree that's it's not ok for this to be opt-out. And it's also not ok to show ads in system critical places like the App Store (at least without an option to disable them). I hope regulators come down hard on Apple and force them to open up the iOS platform. Their stewardship of the iOS app ecosystem is getting worse.

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Re:Apple surpassed $3.5B in annual revenue from its ad network by mrguyorama on Friday August 19, 2022 @05:11PM (#32525939)

>I can assure you 95% of comments in the past 5 to 6 years on HN front page with Ads were all religiously Anti-Ads.

HN is full of Facebook and Google engineers so I doubt that's accurate.

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