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Apple isn’t blocking ads. They’re blocking cross app tracking which was mostly run by Facebook. The apps are still advertising, they just can’t use facebooks pr

• Patrol8394 4y ago
  True, but one should ask why was cross app tracking allowed to begin with. I think that should have never been allowed.
  • bee_rider 4y ago
    Was it ever specifically allowed? Or was it just implemented by Facebook et al using normal things like filesystem and internet access -- the sort of stuff you'd expect an operating system to provide? The idea that users want to protect information, particularly information held by their account, from the programs they run would probably have been pretty surprising in the days when iOS was first being dreamed up...
• JimDabell 4y ago
  > Apple isn’t blocking ads. They’re blocking cross app tracking They aren’t even doing that! All they are doing is saying that if an application wants to do that, it has to ask the user first. Cross application tracking is absolutely fine according to Apple as long as the user consents.