Apple blocking ads that follow users around web is 'sabotage', says industry

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/18/apple-stopping-ads-follow-you-around-internet-sabotage-advertising-industry-ios-11-and-macos-high-sierra-safari-internet

by aaron_p • 9 years ago

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theguardian.com

dozzie• 9 years ago

As much as I dislike Apple, this particular thing earns them my respect.

kagamine• 9 years ago

I don't mind ads generally, people have to get paid and products have to get promoted (not really, but it's how the world turns). Tracking is something that I can happily say goodbye to and feel better about using the web knowing it is gone. If only this would come to desktop and not just mobile.

Browsers should make it much easier to manage cookies and privacy than they currently do. Even just getting the average user, including lazy old me, to go into settings and look through a long list of cryptically named gibberish in order to remove everything to do with facebook every time my SO has used the family PC is a chore. So much so in fact that I keep a PC from which my SO is banned. It's my Linux island.

Unknoob• 9 years ago

It's not just mobile, Apple is actually blocking tracking in the desktop version of Safari.

oalessandr• 9 years ago

All these complaints from the ad industry feel like an endorsement for Safari

CodeWriter23• 9 years ago

One would think they would know better, right?

sgift• 9 years ago

Warped reality. They actually think ads are "helping" people, so the idea that no one wants ads doesn't cross their minds.

grzm• 9 years ago

Discussion on AdWeek article of the same topic 5 days ago (159 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15250463

Apple blocking ads that follow users around web is 'sabotage', says industry

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