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Re:Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own an... by xvector on Monday October 03, 2022 @02:49PM (#33071967)
Anticompetitive to deny others the ability to run ads on your platform. Apple's gonna be hit big time with antitrust.
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Re:Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own an... by CharlesW on Monday October 03, 2022 @03:40PM (#33072604)
> Anticompetitive to deny others the ability to run ads on your platform.

Yeah, if that were true it'd be pretty bad. (It's not true.)

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Re:Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own an... by DrBenCarson on Monday October 03, 2022 @04:14PM (#33073033)
Yeah, that's not true.

Apple doesn't stop anyone from running ads. They stop companies from collecting and aggregating data across multiple apps without explicit user consent.

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Re:Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own an... by m00x on Monday October 03, 2022 @06:58PM (#33074806)
Yet they do it themselves :)

It's a smart business decision. Basically "If you want to have deep tracking on users using iPhones, you need to go through us".

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Re:Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own an... by xvector on Monday October 03, 2022 @06:58PM (#33074805)
Yes, but it's almost certainly not legal for Apple to aggregate across multiple apps while not allowing for other advertisers to do the same.
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