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iOS 14 privacy settings will tank ad targeting business, Facebook warns:
Facebook is warning developers that privacy changes in an upcoming iOS update will severely curtail its ability to track users' activity across the entire Internet and app ecosystem and prevent the social media platform from serving targeted ads to users inside other, non-Facebook apps on iPhones.
The next version of Apple's mobile operating system, iOS 14, is expected to hit an iPhone near you this fall. Along with its many new consumer-facing features, iOS 14 requires app developers to notify users if their app collects a unique device code, known as an IDFA (ID for Advertisers).
[...] The changes requiring users to opt in make the IDFA essentially useless, Facebook warned developers today. Facebook apps on iOS 14—which includes Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, and a host of others—will no longer collect users' IDFA.
When I read that, I had an inexplicable grin come to my face.
(Score: 2) by corey on Friday August 28 2020, @11:16PM
Solution is to not use the Farcebook app. It has a web interface which works. I guess the sheeple will continue to use the app and therefore allow access to contacts.
This is why there are so many companies who heavily promote their apps, even if an app won't provide any more features than their website. For example, the burger shop chain Grill'd has an app, why? I mean why develop an app to do the same thing, and why promote it so much? Personal information access, that's why.
I think the only app I have on my phone which also has a website, is the Australian Bureau Of Metrology. It's pretty trustworthy though.