Looks like Google wasn’t being entirely accurate when they spoke to the press about this a month ago.
I'm not defending Google's business model and I don't disagree with Apple's move to improved privacy. I just hate how hypocritical Apple is, and they always get away with it.
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1. Apple doesn’t track your activity across other company’s apps and websites.
2. Apple doesn’t require third party apps to request permission to allow personalized ads.
Apple is holding itself to a higher standard than it holds 3rd parties.
Now you may say that some data collection is unavoidable given the nature of the device (eg push messaging) but that’s often also true of other company’s products.
Possibly could have worked during the trump era when the news cycle was like whiplash, but now people will hopefully pay more attention.
I.e. there is no evidence, anywhere that they do this.
I don’t need to prove a negative. If you’re accusing them of something, provide evidence, otherwise this is just innuendo.
Secondly, even if they do have enough data to infer something about user behavior across websites and third party apps in some future in which we discover they were lying, that isn’t the same thing as intentionally tracking people across websites using explicit identifiers today.
It’s worth pointing out that they are aware of the inference problem and we know they sanitize their logs to alleviate it e.g. by anonymizing IP addresses etc before storage, although we also can reasonably guess that they haven’t achieved this universally yet.
> Now you may say that some data collection is unavoidable given the nature of the device (eg push messaging) but that’s often also true of other company’s products.
This is true, but irrelevant.
Apple discloses what they collect, and there is no double standard in what they are asking others to do.
It’s the claim of a double standard that is complete bullshit.
Apple has removed the following SDKs from Shazam: AdMob, Bolts, DoubleClick, Facebook Ads, Facebook Analytics, Facebook Login, Inmobi, IAS, Moat, and Mopub.