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Betteridge's law of headlines applies to this one. Though this quote from another article was particularly inexplicable to me: > “This is another sign that App

Betteridge's law of headlines applies to this one. Though this quote from another article was particularly inexplicable to me: > “This is another sign that Apple’s war against targeted advertising isn’t just about screwing Facebook,” Joshua Benton wrote in Nieman Lab. “They’re also coming for your Substack.” Substack's whole appeal (at least to me) is that it's not bogged down by the seemingly mandatory ads, popovers, and autoplay videos that plague every other news site.

dylan604 5y ago
Why is it that Apple is coming for anyone specific rather than just trying to protect user privacy in general regardless to who it is affecting? Of course, other than not being click-baity enough.
- AlexandrB 5y ago
  Reading some of the takes on this topic makes me realize that my consent is completely irrelevant to this whole industry at this point: https://mattietk.medium.com/apples-mail-privacy-protection-is-lazy-and-hurts-small-publishers-79e1972aab46 https://mattietk.medium.com/apples-mail-privacy-protection-i... > Apple’s fight for privacy is really a fight against the web. In signing up for a newsletter, a publisher or marketer already has a more valuable piece of PII: your email address. By focusing on IP addresses, and blocking trackers rather than proxying them on a fuzzy delay (which would provide the same useful publisher data without any PII leak of location or time), Apple are not really fighting for their users so much as they are fighting against email. No. Embedding invisible elements that report back information I never intended you to have is "fighting against email". Terrestrial mail does not allow you to track where, when, or by whom it's opened. I think that's the expectation of most people for email as well. The fact that marketers have gotten away with something different thus far is a vulnerability in the standard as far as I'm concerned and should be fixed.
stonogo 5y ago
Substack's value prop is that subscribers receive richly-formatted emails of the posts; it's essentially a newsletter service with a web publishing feature.
- pessimizer 5y ago
  I don't think that the emails being richly-formatted is a major part of the value proposition. People are subscribing for the words.

dylan604 5y ago

Why is it that Apple is coming for anyone specific rather than just trying to protect user privacy in general regardless to who it is affecting? Of course, other than not being click-baity enough.

AlexandrB 5y ago
Reading some of the takes on this topic makes me realize that my consent is completely irrelevant to this whole industry at this point: https://mattietk.medium.com/apples-mail-privacy-protection-is-lazy-and-hurts-small-publishers-79e1972aab46 https://mattietk.medium.com/apples-mail-privacy-protection-i... > Apple’s fight for privacy is really a fight against the web. In signing up for a newsletter, a publisher or marketer already has a more valuable piece of PII: your email address. By focusing on IP addresses, and blocking trackers rather than proxying them on a fuzzy delay (which would provide the same useful publisher data without any PII leak of location or time), Apple are not really fighting for their users so much as they are fighting against email. No. Embedding invisible elements that report back information I never intended you to have is "fighting against email". Terrestrial mail does not allow you to track where, when, or by whom it's opened. I think that's the expectation of most people for email as well. The fact that marketers have gotten away with something different thus far is a vulnerability in the standard as far as I'm concerned and should be fixed.

stonogo 5y ago

Substack's value prop is that subscribers receive richly-formatted emails of the posts; it's essentially a newsletter service with a web publishing feature.

pessimizer 5y ago
I don't think that the emails being richly-formatted is a major part of the value proposition. People are subscribing for the words.