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Google immediately admitted that they were aware that what they had done violated those terms. >A Google spokesperson told The Verge, “The Screenwise Meter iOS
by GeekyBear 8y ago
Google immediately admitted that they were aware that what they had done violated those terms.
>A Google spokesperson told The Verge, “The Screenwise Meter iOS app should not have operated under Apple’s developer enterprise program — this was a mistake, and we apologize.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18204064/apple-google-monitoring-phone-usage-screenwise-meter https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/30/18204064/apple-google-mon...
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- ocdtrekkie 8y agoAnd so they should be fully understanding why Apple enforced them. Furthermore, the terrifying level of abuse of the Screenwise program has been going on a really, really long time: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/02/google-paying-users-to-track-100-of-their-web-usage-via-little-black-box/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/02/google-paying-users-... It's hard to tell exactly how long the iOS app has been available, but I found version 7.x of the Android app all the way back in 2015 on APKmirror (it's archive only goes back so far). So presumably the mobile app strategy has been around a long time.
- vilhelm_s 8y agoHow is that "terribly abusive"? People are getting paid to participate, to me that seems like a higher level of informed consent and more ethical than other forms of user tracking.
- _underfl0w_ 8y agoI believe the parent was referring to Google having "abused" Apple's Enterprise Cert program - which is the central crux of both this article and the majority of commentary here on HN.
- ehsankia 8y agoI don't think so, the article linked talks about the other ways the program worked. That specific one refers to the free router they would send users. That has nothing to do with Apple whatsoever.