Well, Android has the same thing, except you can't even turn it off in Settings! (you can on regenerate the ID). On iOS you could always just disable it.
Yes that's totally true. But first Google doesn't really portray themselves as a "Privacy respecting" alternative. And second, it's not because other companies are doing similar abusive things that we should praise and thanks Apple.
The title should be more like "At last, after years of using it, Apple finally remove the abusive cross-app tracking that other companies still use", but not "Thank you Apple".
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 31.3 ms ] threadIt is crazy that a company that brags about privacy had a cross-app tracking system to start with
The title should be more like "At last, after years of using it, Apple finally remove the abusive cross-app tracking that other companies still use", but not "Thank you Apple".
Why don't they get rid of Pocket?
Why don't they remove tracking from their own new tab page?
Mozilla is dead to me from a privacy perspective, and they've also made their product inferior.
Edit: Looks like there are two others. Which is better, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25941200 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25940916?