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It sounds like they disabled the "advertising ID" OS feature, but there are many other ways to fingerprint a device for advertising. Maybe this will lead to rea
by tencentshill 2mo ago
It sounds like they disabled the "advertising ID" OS feature, but there are many other ways to fingerprint a device for advertising. Maybe this will lead to real privacy reform, now that the true risks are apparent. Not to mention ICE using the same data against civilians.
- danparsonson 2mo ago[flagged]
- tencentshill 2mo agoIt now directly affects the troops and military, who they ostensibly do care about. Maybe the citizens can have a little privacy reform, as a trickle-down treat.
- john_strinlai 2mo agomaybe trickle-down privacy will be more successful than trickle-down economics. one can hope.
- jlarocco 2mo agoIf they cared about the troops, they wouldn't send them on bullshit missions like whatever we're doing in Iran.
- macintux 2mo agoTrump has demonstrated repeatedly, emphatically, and publicly that he does not care about the troops, or at least certainly not injured/captured/killed ones. Or minorities. Or non-citizens fighting for the country. Or citizens with non-citizen spouses/fiancees/parents.
- bigyabai 2mo agoThe US will still surveil the troops and citizens. All this does is reduce the commercial attack surface for adversaries, privacy be damned.
- tencentshill 2mo agoThe "buying from advertisers" strategy was a workaround, and has yet to be properly tested in court. Hopefully we'll get that loophole closed soon. They also use it heavily for recruitment to pinpoint the most desperate youth.
- sublinear 2mo agoYou insist on using broad brushstroke language like "masked goons". Nobody is going to listen to your lack of nuance on other topics either.
- juliushuijnk 2mo agobroad brushstroke guess; ICE
- TheNastyPatty 2mo agoHow much nuance is there really to explore in that topic if even longtime ICE agents are themselves decrying the current state of the agency, and rightfully blaming the current administration for opening the floodgates to any redneck who can read a job application https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-agents-morale-reports-minneapolis-shooting-b2907742.html https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...
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- lovich 2mo agoI mean, they are masked, right? And they’ve been going around beating people and in a few cases killing them, like goons, right? Just because terms can and have been used hyperbolically doesn’t mean that the same term cannot accurately describe other situations.
- danparsonson 2mo agoWell you're right, "goon" is a value judgement, but if someone's critical thinking extends no further than 'bad word therefore bad argument' then I'm not sure I could reach them in any case.
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- mannanj 2mo agoNote: much of the privacy work is done by Israeli intelligence firms. If you think that it's "our" government, you'll be disappointed.
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- hnlmorg 2mo agoJust out of interest, what news sources do you follow? I ask because those claims are made by a very small few yet debunked by every independent investigation.
- monotomic 2mo ago[flagged]
- hnlmorg 2mo agoAnd here lies the problem with having intelligent conversations with followers of popularist movements: I asked a straightforward question and you ramble on about something else entirely. If you actually cared about your country then you’d have answered honestly. So I won’t bother to engage with you further.
- ryandrake 2mo agoWhy worry about facts and evidence when you instead have "vibes from the real world."
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- pnw 2mo agoDisabling "advertising ID" on iOS makes it extremely difficult to reliably fingerprint phones. Apple doesn't allow SDKs which attempt to bypass this, so the app would have to have a first party auth of some type.
- thrawa8387336 2mo agoDude, FAANG still manage to do it, day in day out.
- jdm2212 2mo agoIIRC they actually don't and it materially reduced Meta's profit when Apple rolled out the advertiser ID system.
- throw0101d 2mo ago"Facebook says Apple iOS privacy change will result in $10 billion revenue hit this year" (2022): * https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/02/facebook-says-apple-ios-privacy-change-will-cost-10-billion-this-year.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/02/facebook-says-apple-ios-priv... See also perhaps "It’s not Meta - its APPLE who have screwed us small advertisers": * https://www.reddit.com/r/FacebookAds/comments/1o85w2q/ https://www.reddit.com/r/FacebookAds/comments/1o85w2q/
- DiggyJohnson 2mo agoWow that number is line an order of magnitude or more than I expected it would be
- kstrauser 2mo agoWon't someone please think of the poor advertisers? /s
- joshspankit 2mo agoI would be even more shocked if instead of adapting, they’ve continued to lose $10b a year
- roosterIllusi0n 2mo agoEverything they do is a framework for consumer protection laws.
- LoganDark 2mo agoOn iOS you can apparently simply check the APFS filesystem creation date and that's stable and unique enough to need almost no disambiguation. And any app can do this with no entitlements