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It’s not telling at all that you compared israel behavior with some of the worst repressive and least liberal governments on earth huh?

That's not how it works. Every ad vendor has a privacy page with this stuff spelled out in the same way.

That's for apps to track you, not for apple.

anyone using akamai as a CDN is having issues, if they use it also as a DNS they won't even resolve their primary domains.

I'm speaking to the author of the comment I replied to who basically states that the article was purely good because of the topic, without having any critical eye towards it. And the un-orderliness is in the title of the article commented on, nyt has dark patterns on their site as well.

The author of the NYT piece is a member of the editorial board so he should be held to a higher standard than employees of a business that protest its practices, while probably having no power over setting them. A member of the editorial board is certainly in a more powerful position, relatively speaking, to make changes in their newspaper and surely he could have talked about the example set by the business he works for. If Google came out with PR that pointed at Apple tracking users of its phones, something that is factually true, they would be rightfully laughed at because they are the last ones that can complain that someone tracks people.

It's really not alright to step on the pulpit to point fingers left and right when your house is also not in order, it makes it seem more like you're trying to move forward your business agenda rather than really caring about the issue.

Except Apple is putting its own ability to track you under a different opt-out (default opted-in) that isn't set when you first launch the iphone.

what is there to be disappointed about? Did you really think Apple actually cares about privacy the way you intend privacy? Or do you think it's more likely for them to care about it with the definition that gives them the biggest market power?

There's nothing surprising with Apple doing this, what's surprising is that they are applying different standards to everyone else and most people still fail to see this, and are surprised or disappointed by the behavior, when it's all been in plain sight.

The Open Internet for the Rich that we all envisioned.

I replied. You are considering Apple's system better despite the fact that Apple's goal is to re create the web environment in their own apps so they can monetize it in their platform.

So your argument is maybe valid (I don't think so, tracking is tracking and this isn't just contextual targeting) only now, as time goes by and Apple accumulates more power your argument is back to being invalid again.

The link you posted examines the issue in detail, IP address on its own is already on its own a decent identifier at the household level, and used today, and that's why there is a specification on Willful IP Blindness proposed by Google.

But IP alone is imperfect as well anyway for tracking.

The second paragraph you quote is literally the counter example of what I just said.

There needs to exist a way to identify you in other ways and in the future cookies won't be one of those. So a site that has your information because you shared it with them will be able to see your cohort changing, otherwise you'll look like a new user each time.

And yeah I'm extremely familiar with FLoC, more so than the EFF.