Comment on Apple hit with $115M fine for “extremely burdensome” App Store privacy policy
kayazere@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
How was there double consent required?
Without ATT companies use dark patterns, opt-out, and over burdensome Privacy Policies or Terms of Service to get “consent” from the user.
When users get a straightforward choice to allow tracking or not, like with ATT, most don’t allow it.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
That’s the issue. You also have the GDPR consent so you have to allow tracking there AND in the ATT to be tracked. GDPR consent forms are more complicated so most people just hit accept.
The issue here is that ad companies aren’t making as much off Apple users as they could be and I’m disgusted that this is something the EU is now fighting for…
kayazere@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
I don’t think two separate forms are needed for GDPR consent and ATT. Apps I worked on took the result from ATT and used that as the user consenting to be tracked in the app for GDPR.
I guess companies want to make it cumbersome as possible so user gets fatigued and just clicked through it mindlessly like with cookies banners on every website.