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> “I’m speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers int
by pen2l 11y ago
> “I’m speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information,”
That is just really, really, REALLY RICH, coming from the company who's behind this kind of shit: http://i.imgur.com/1lGp7ps.jpg http://i.imgur.com/1lGp7ps.jpg
Yep, to turn off ad-tracking, you have to go to... Settings... then 'General'... and then... About. Wait, "About"? Yes, "About", then "Advertising" ... and then do "Limit Ad Tracking". "Limit Ad Tracking", what a wonderfully clear label huh!
Of course that's coming to you form the individual who likes to give lofty speeches about how he and Steve Jobs led in 'advancing humanity through the equality of all its employees' [1]. Because let's please just forget about how Apple had its part in collusion over hiring policies [2].
[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/technology/tim-cook-making-apple-his-own.html http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/technology/tim-cook-making...
[2]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/04/23/what-the-apple-wage-collusion-case-says-about-silicon-valleys-labor-economy/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/04/23...
- DigitalBison 11y agoNot sure how recently it was changed, but on my phone running iOS 8.3 that setting is under Privacy -> Advertising.
- dirtae 11y agoYeah, that screenshot is from a very old version of iOS. It's now under Privacy > Advertising, which is right where I'd expect it.
- supercoder 11y agoThat feature is there to let you improve your privacy, not to trick you in to taking it away. http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/09/13/apple_adds_new_limit_ad_tracking_feature_to_ios_6 http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/09/13/apple_adds_new_lim... The problem is legacy, a bunch of stuff was probably going to break if they just enabled that en-mass.