Apple’s simple iPhone alert is costing Facebook $10 billion a year

MacWorld ^ | 02/03/2022 | Michael Simon

[Drew68]

Thanks Apple. I've turned off tracking on all apps.

Even better knowing that doing this is causing Facebook to hemorrhage money.

[Drew68]

Apple ping.

[PGR88]

Thanks for the post. I have made sure to turn off tracking for all apps

[MercyFlush]

Quitting Facebook altogether also impacts their revenue.

[Steely Tom]

Google paid Apple $1B cash to make it the default search engine on their hand-held devices. I don't know how long that deal was for, but it wasn't permanent.

$1B happens to be pretty much what their ring-shaped headquarters building cost.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Presumably android phones are allowing tracking to continue??

[lightman]

Settings >> Frivacy >> Tracking >> “Allow apps”—move slider to “NO”.

[Drew68]

Presumably android phones are allowing tracking to continue??

I don't know. I've never owned an android device.

[Jet Jaguar]

Thanks.

[SueRae]

Ping

[AlaskaErik]

I turned mine off a long time ago.

[miliantnutcase]

Yes, from settings > app permissions. Android devices just don’t prompt you for it.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Thanks. I wondered.

[Savage Rider]

Cry me a river FB. I don’t like FB infiltrating my life.

[American Quilter]

Thanks Apple. I've turned off tracking on all apps. Even better knowing that doing this is causing Facebook to hemorrhage money.

I hadn't heard of this app, but am now upgrading my iPhone and iMac so I can install it on both. I agree: if it hurts FB, I'm all for it. Thanks for posting this.

[Jumpmaster]

Never allow tracking on my stuff.

Rarely carry my phone. Call it “digital hygiene”.

[Revel]

Only Apple people would take credit for facebook loses.

[telescope115]

Hey Facebook!
Too bad, so sad!
I don’t do Facebook- never have, never will….

[drSteve78]

Made my day. Made sure that spouse and mother-in-law Iphones and iPads are similarly “disconnected”.

[Albion Wilde]

Google paid Apple $1B cash to make it the default search engine on their hand-held devices... $1B happens to be pretty much what their ring-shaped headquarters building cost.

Sort of like the RCC selling indulgences in order to build St Peter's Basilica, but then they couldn't corral the Reformation back into the fold. Facebook now fancies itself a church, so...

Mark Zuckerberg Is Planting the First Church of the Metaverse