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Essentially, since Google is an ad company, and is supported by selling ads based on user tracking, they will integrate their ad tracking platform directly into
by ocdtrekkie 5y ago
Essentially, since Google is an ad company, and is supported by selling ads based on user tracking, they will integrate their ad tracking platform directly into Android itself.
Meanwhile, Apple just blocks tracking behaviors.
- gjsman-1000 5y agoEvery time Google implements a new "privacy" feature, it's because they've figured out how to be mostly unaffected while harming their competitors.
- KKKKkkkk1 5y agoAccording to analysts, Apple made $5bn in ad revenue in 2021 [0]. [0] Apple’s privacy changes create windfall for its own advertising business. https://www.ft.com/content/074b881f-a931-4986-888e-2ac53e286b9d https://www.ft.com/content/074b881f-a931-4986-888e-2ac53e286...
- guywithabike 5y ago"According to analysts" tells you that you shouldn't take this very seriously. Analysts have a long and storied history of getting pretty much everything wrong about Apple for decades now.
- smoldesu 5y agoPlease, take the first-hand account of the multi-trillion dollar company over the results of independent studies. Next up, you should ignore the UN's accusations of Apple abusing Uighur labor in China because they're primarily comprised of nations that are not the US, which gives them a vested interest in badmouthing a spotless domestic company like Apple. It all makes so much sense now!