Apple blocking ads that follow users around web is 'sabotage', says industry(theguardian.com)
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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
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As much as I dislike Apple, this particular thing earns them my respect.
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.
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.
It's not just mobile, Apple is actually blocking tracking in the desktop version of Safari.
All these complaints from the ad industry feel like an endorsement for Safari
One would think they would know better, right?
Warped reality. They actually think ads are "helping" people, so the idea that no one wants ads doesn't cross their minds.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15250463