iOS 17 automatically removes tracking parameters from links you click on

Re:iOS 17 automatically removes tracking parameters from lin... by lanza on Thursday June 08, 2023 @05:27PM (#36249381)

> Google, FB, & Microsoft where they both control and sell your data to the highest bidder.

Can we please keep this nonsense to lower quality sites like reddit? I like to pretend hacker news hasn't degraded this far yet.

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Re:iOS 17 automatically removes tracking parameters from lin... by HDThoreaun on Thursday June 08, 2023 @06:45PM (#36250281)

While not technically correct "sell your data to the highest bidder" is close enough to what Google and FB are doing, and the distinction is irrelevant for most people.

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Re:iOS 17 automatically removes tracking parameters from lin... by rossjudson on Thursday June 08, 2023 @11:56PM (#36252927)

Please expand, and perhaps explain how Apple is different.

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Re:iOS 17 automatically removes tracking parameters from lin... by ilyt on Thursday June 08, 2023 @06:59PM (#36250450)

Ad networks are running realtime bidding for ad space already in case you didn't know.

At the very least Google and FB got punished for doing that already in the past

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Re:iOS 17 automatically removes tracking parameters from lin... by fshbbdssbbgdd on Thursday June 08, 2023 @09:34PM (#36252014)

Apple also runs this kind of bidding now: https://searchads.apple.com/best-practices/bidding

If that’s not “selling your data”, we need to be more specific about what we are talking about.

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