WoefullyInept

Why would anyone use this except apple? It's bad for users, bad for websites, but good for apple.

As a European, this is a no shit sherlock moment for me. Who thought Google searches wouldn't be used?

You mean like this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/08/07/apple-a...

Wat? I don't own an iPhone, but I can't even uninstall iTunes on my mac.

It's really not.

What do you think they'll do with a cookie id associated to a few events?

This is why I cringe when I read articles like this.

To Quantcast she was just a cookie with some events that ultimately indicated she might like x and has shown interest in buying y.

This is explicitly false. Mastercard or Experian might know her name but this would not be shared for an audience. Its simply cookie123 is in audience456.

You'd take it because you're not qualified to do it. And neither am I. Anyone that would meet their expectations of experience would already be working in the C suite at another company for significantly more.

This is the equivalent of accepting minimum wage for being CEO of a S&P 500 company, blindfolded and without a steering wheel.

You couldn't be further from the truth. App developers told Apple they are going to decimate their income and ability to survive.

I cringe reading the deluded opinions from people in this thread that clearly do not understand the impact on the app ecosystem, let alone how ad tech works.

I'd liken it to reading a post on mumsnet.com with 100+ middle aged women arguing about 5g.

I'm genuinely surprised they haven't backtracked on this - it completely ruins the experience.

I personally know several vegans that have had minor health problems because of their diet. You can eat a very healthy diet as a vegan, the problem is most people are not educated or motivated enough to get proper variation in their diet.

Its much easier for the general public to eat a varied diet by not restricting themselves to veganism.

Apple is wasting its energy. All they know is they seem to make some decent money from the crappy mobile gaming world, so they blindly think they'll be able to leverage this.

It might be a gesture at a company like Amazon where they employ many low paid workers, but at FB a high proportion of workers will see this as a 0.2-1% bonus.

The 'exceeds' performance review will have a much bigger impact on income.

It really doesn't solve any problems surrounding web analytics, user privacy or user experience. I think it shows the creators lack of industry experience in ecommerce, advertising and user tracking. It's like someone has sprinkled a flawed 20 year old method of tracking in glitter and saas'd it.

I think there is a very small subset of website owners that would be willing to pay for this. Then again he only needs to get a few people that aren't sales focused and are deluded enough to think this is the pinnacle of 'privacy'.