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User Tracking Back On iOS 6
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."
The UDID of old was something you could not block access to.
Having an ID specific for ad use is better, since you can disable it (even if how to do so is a bit hidden behind a few layers of menus). Otherwise advertisers would seek some other means to tracking, and end up with something you could not as easily block.
Personally though I generally leave things like this on, I actually do want more relevant advertising (I don't use ad blockers on the web for the same reason).
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
It's not FUD.
Apple has deliberately buried the opt out option as a cop out for a feature that adds no value whatsoever to the customer's device or experience but allows third parties to make money by exploiting their privacy where there is a reasonable expectation of privacy. This should be an "opt in" feature by default if there are truly people who "want to support the poor advertisers." Beyond that I think there needs to be a push for access to the hosts file on phones so the user can take control of what connections are using their data plan.
I have no idea why you seem to so touchy about this.
That time of the month?
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?