Comment

Comment by MBCook

Good. The website imore reported earlier this year that 96% of people in the US had opted out of tracking.

It’s almost as if no one wants this “feature” Facebook has been “providing” and given information about it and a choice have roundly rejected it.

I can’t wait to see what some of Apple’s other initiatives like the anti-tracking features in Mail on iOS 15 and the upcoming iCloud Private Relay do to the industry.

Hell, US intelligence agencies block ads at the network level because the ad industry is so infested with tracking/malware/spyware/exploits/etc. That’s a hell of an indictment.

Of course any time someone looks into it they find that that click-rate fraud is at outrageous levels. So maybe no one needs Apple. The fraud bots will keep the ecosystem running. /s

https://www.imore.com/96-iphone-users-have-opted-out-app-tra...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ypke/the-nsa-and-cia-use-a...

parent MBCook 5 years ago

Discussion

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton