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b) Apple blocking tracking is only a net benefit if you value privacy enough to overweigh the drop in customers for niche businesses well served by targeted ads
by pradn 6y ago
b) Apple blocking tracking is only a net benefit if you value privacy enough to overweigh the drop in customers for niche businesses well served by targeted ads.
- kergonath 6y agoApple is not blocking tracking, though. Apple is putting the decision in the hands of the user.
- pradn 6y agoThe practical effect is a massive decrease in tracking information for companies- defaults are powerful. I agree with Apple’s decision. It’s just going to have negative effects for some businesses, which is a price that must be considered against the gain in privacy.
- kergonath 6y agoIt will have effects, sure. But they still don’t prevent tracking, and if the trade off is so compelling for users as some people here seem to imply, then users will just accept it. It is difficult to say that the users being aware of what they are giving away is a bad thing, unless you are a crook whose business model is based on deception.
- sahila 6y agoThat's not you evaluate giving up a person's privacy. Otherwise your argument is akin to saying we should force X millionaire to give up all his money to y group of people because of the net benefit.
- mrzimmerman 6y agoWell in the case of the USA taxation is part of the constitution. Privacy is too but that relates to how the government surveils you and not necessarily how a private company collects info on you as you use their product. So I guess I’m saying your comparison is specious.