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Look how we selectively choose information and how that is bad for consumers! iOS 14 released anti-tracking features in April of 2021. This article is release
by imchillyb 5y ago
Look how we selectively choose information and how that is bad for consumers!
iOS 14 released anti-tracking features in April of 2021. This article is released at the end of september, almost october, of 2021.
Yet, the authors choose to specifically use a version of iOS that was prior to these changes.
This is proof enough for me that the authors purposely skewed the data. This skewed data does not reflect reality, and so the data from this study is not data.
I hope the rest of this community is savvy enough to realize this article is attempting to dupe the readers into a false conclusion.
- simion314 5y agoOr maybe the date of the publication does not imply that the data and the work was done exactly in the week before, sometimes a study might take more work then a blog post.
- prepend 5y agoThere’s enough time between April and publication of this preprint that they should have addressed it. Also, this is a preprint, so maybe they do expand on the final pub.
- viktorcode 5y agoit is somewhat irrelevant. Privacy conscious users could disable that tracking in iPhone settings for years.
- smoldesu 5y agoYeah, the data is totally skewed! They didn't even include Android 12 which just hit AOSP beta last week!