So privacy intrusion is fine as long as it's artisanal tracking from a mom-and-pop data broker (or more specifically, their mom-and-pop client)? This will probably be a bonanza for certain "small businesses".The system harms "smaller publishers in particular since, unlike the main vertically integrated platforms, they depend to a large extent on third-party data collection to finance their business," the agency said.
So you want to have to say no ten or twenty times? I dont get how that is better. You say no once, and that's it.Fuck you, France regulators.
As far as ad-tracking goes, I’d support double, triple, quadruple and beyond chances to tell ad trackers to kindly go fuck themselves.
If I'm reading the article correctly, this is about ALLOWING tracking with one click.France is correct. I should only have to tell you once not to track me for advertising purposes. Preferably with a global do-not-track flag.
That's my issue with the EU in general, it seems they are creating thresholds that exempt their own companies, thus the reason many of us believe they are simply targeting American companies. I noticed that cars made in the EU don't have to open up their car software to alternative app stores....So privacy intrusion is fine as long as it's artisanal tracking from a mom-and-pop data broker (or more specifically, their mom-and-pop client)? This will probably be a bonanza for certain "small businesses".
That's my issue with the EU in general, is they are creating thresholds that exempt their own companies, thus the reason many of us believe they are simply targeting American companies. I noticed that cars made in the EU don't have to open up their car software to alternative app stores....
Many cars have subscriptions, pre installed Apps, Sirius, Toyota Connected Services to name a few. BMW charges for certain services, even tried to charge for CarPlay.Which US made cars have app stores?
Which US made cars have app stores?
Hmm actually, which cars made anywhere have app stores? I need to know so I can avoid them in the future.
No, the problem is that Apple's consent popup doesn't cover everything that apps are legally required to cover. The intent here seems like a good opportunity for Apple - they can implement a single API, ban developers from having their own consent popops, and you can easily have global opt-out and developers just get a payload that says you've opted out of everything the EU mandates you can opt out of.What a blatant cash grab. This amounts to saying it's apples fault that app developers ask their own privacy consent on top of the baked in mechanism? That's entirely an app developers choice, sue them
Settings -> Privacy and Security -> Tracking -> Allow Apps to Request to TrackI hope this ends with the option to never track getting baked into the OS.
Thank you, French regulators.Fuck you, France regulators.
As far as ad-tracking goes, I’d support double, triple, quadruple and beyond chances to tell ad trackers to kindly go fuck themselves.
Disagree. People keep their phones for years, and it's way too easy to grant an app permissions and then have them persist beyond the point where they are necessary. For instance, if you stop using Tile(s) for locating things but forget to delete the app, you could be tracked for years with no benefit to you.On the flip side, Apple repeatedly "reminds" me that the Tile app is tracking my position and keeps asking me if I want to disable that. Which is stupid, as the entire point of that app is to help me remember where my stuff is! I think that Apple knows this, but is using their privacy and security settings to sabotage their competition. Ask me once after installing, and never ask me again.
IIRC Microsoft tried doing that in Edge, right after swapping it to Chromium. Sites responded by ignoring the setting.How about just don't track me at all? Don't ask, don't make me decline every time I visit a site. Just. Don't.
Apple doesn’t make apps do that. Sometimes apps themselves have to ask further questions to comply with their individual leal obligations—Apple has no way to know about that. The only way to comply with this ruling would be to allow apps to track without Apple’s pop-up.Thank you, French regulators.
Instead of having to answer the same question two, three, or four times, the regulations insist that answering just once is enough, but that Apple must also adhere to those same standards, instead of unfairly preferencing itself by not allowing users to decline Apple tracking in the same way.
I’m really confused by the outrage over this.