Its insane how much billions they’re allowed to make while we get none of it.
Comment on Apple hit with $115M fine for “extremely burdensome” App Store privacy policy
pressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Wow! A whole .1% of their fourth quarter revenue! That’ll show em!
tonytins@pawb.social 1 day ago
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 2 days ago
They shouldn’t be fined for this at all. They were sued because ad companies couldn’t target ads to people if apple allowed them to opt-out. That’s fucked up, people shouldn’t have to hand their data over to advertisers if they don’t want to.
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I found that if I opted out of personalized ads they started showing dick pill ads with half naked women asking my kids if they wanted to get rock hard. Turned personalized ads back on and it’s divorce lawyer ads from my divorce two years ago. Lose/lose.
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
Yeah, they can still personalize somewhat based upon what other people in your area are getting as personalized ads. There’s an upside though, and that’s that by disabling personalized ads, you cut their income from you by as much as 60% since they can’t target you with stuff that will supposedly appeal to you. That’s why they sued apple, advertisers are losing hundreds of millions every year on that.
So you should disable personalized ads anyway out of spite.
imecth@fedia.io 1 day ago
Part of the problem here is that those extra permissions weren't required if you used Apple's ad service. They stifled competition in their own favor.