User Tracking Back On iOS 6

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Posted by timothy on Thursday October 18, 2012 @05:40AM from the stephen-king-needs-to-get-on-this dept.

First time accepted submitter connor4312 writes "Apple got caught with its hand in the cookie jar when privacy experts protested the use of a universal device identifier, or UDID, to track the online preferences of iPhone and iPad users. Enough is enough, right? Well, maybe not. It looks like device tracking is back with iOS 6, courtesy of a new tracking technology: IDFA, or identifier for advertisers."

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Oh no! by Kenja · 2012-10-18 05:42 · Score: 5, Funny

They know I'm at Starbucks! Now how will I write my screen play in peace?

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1. Re:Oh no! by slashmydots · 2012-10-18 06:00 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Whoa whoa whoa, there mister technology-whore. Just remember...
  Real hipsters use typewriters
2. Re:Oh no! by TRRosen · 2012-10-18 07:36 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  OMG location based features know our location!!!!! Who would have thunk it.
Does this really shock anyone? by JustAnotherIdiot · 2012-10-18 05:46 · Score: 5, Funny

Tech companies as a whole value your privacy almost as much as a fat kid values vegetables.

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IDFA? by BobNET · 2012-10-18 05:49 · Score: 5, Funny

Full armor, full ammo, all weapons, but no keys.
I think I'll wait for IDKFA.
1. Re:IDFA? by TheSpoom · 2012-10-18 06:16 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  If they can get me an iPhone that lets me walk through walls, I might just reconsider my no-Apple policy.
  
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Re:Unlike before, now you can turn it off by pitchpipe · 2012-10-18 06:36 · Score: 4, Funny
If you want to turn off device tracking using the IDFA on your iOS6 device, do the following:
- 1) Click on Settings.
- 2) Click on General to access the General Settings.
- 3) Click About
- 4) Scroll down and click on Advertising.
- 5) Set Limit Ad Tracking to "ON".
6) Press and hold the 'Power' button for five minutes.
7) Say "Steve Jobs is now a god" seven times and really mean it.
8) Put the phone in a glass case on a raised pedestal under spotlights in the middle of your living room.
9) Leave it there for forty days and forty nights.
10) Take phone out of the glass case and place it in a 100 lb. bag of virgin white rice.
11) Hermetically seal bag.
12) Leave it there for three days.
Device tracking will now probably be turned off for the next 15 minutes. If it's not, try repeating the instructions above, but this time do them with enthusiasm.
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