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dialtone | 4 years ago

It is a very similar feature to Apple Segments[1] already implemented in iOS on which sadly not a lot of documentation is available.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205223

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2OEH8eoCRo0|4 years ago

I'm fed up with all the ads and tracking and it saddens me that even Apple does this shit. I want none of it.

This shouldn't exist in your operating system at all.

kart23|4 years ago

When I first got my iPhone, I searched for Youtube on the app store. The first result I got was tiktok - an ad that takes up a third of the screen. Its a terrible UX and confused the hell out of me. I seriously thought Apple was supposed to be user-friendly and anti-advertising...

whoopdedo|4 years ago

Why wouldn't they? Apple is in the same business Google is of selling ads and in-app payment processing for apps on their platform. In one respect, Google is better than Apple for warning you ahead of time when an app contains ads. That's not an endorsement, mind you. There's other things Apple does better than Google. But there's no "good guy" here. Only less-bad guys.

Angostura|4 years ago

This is for serving ads in the App store, the New App and the Stocks app (if that still exists?)

comex|4 years ago

Except that those aren't offered up to every website you visit.

dialtone|4 years ago

Very thin distinction here given that they can still be purchased by advertisers and Apple has every interest in being the only company monetizing on their platform so the number of parties seeing this is irrelevant if the point was the surveillance problem.