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Apple is Sending Some Developers Ad Spend and Install Details For Other People's Apps (techcrunch.com)

Posted by msmash on from the stranger-things dept.

An issue at Apple appears to be resulting in app developers getting emails of ad spend and install summaries for apps belonging to other developers. From a report: The issue -- which appears specific right now to developers using Search Ads Basic, pay-per-install ads that appear as promoted apps when people search on the App Store -- was raised on Twitter by a number of those affected, including prominent developer Steve Troughton-Smith, who posted a screenshot of an email that summarized January's ad spend and install data another developer's two apps. Several others replied noting the same issue, listing more developers and random apps.

14 comments

  1. Apple is broken these days by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    I really question how many really good people are at Apple anymore? Maybe its just because the leadership is so incompetent these days. Nothing else, this is a privacy nightmare for Apple. I've stopped putting Apple on a pedestal anymore, they don't deserve that stature.

  2. All that tracking and telemetry data by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You woudn't want it to get into the wrong hands. Malware writers now working to get it from Apple.

  3. In the Trumpverse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    this is a problem?

  4. You're just renting your iPhone by DogDude · · Score: 0

    Apple owns *everything* you do on your iPhone. All of it. Is anybody still surprised by this?

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  5. RTFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    eom

  6. Stop using the non-word "spend" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It makes you sound really, really dumb.

    1. Re:Stop using the non-word "spend" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      But.. spend is a word. I have no clue what the fuck "Ad Spend and Install Details" is supposed to be, but that doesn't mean the phrase contains non-words.

  7. I thought the fanbois said only Google... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "sells your information". Apparently, they do so for free. YOU GET AN AD REPORT... YOU GET AN AD REPORT... ;)

  8. Only apps can app apps! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    These apps are so appy, they get app reports from other apps! LUDDITE software can't do that!

    Apps!

  9. Poor focus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Apple has been focusing on making pretty products, not functional ones for a while. All the reset major bugs show that technical debt is being called in. I used to swear by MacBooks as a development machine. The latest versions of MacOS are just junk. They seem to be geared towards content consumption and little else.

    I see the iPhone X also has a bug where it can't receive calls. That's fine. It's main purpose is to show you have an iPhone X and are an "arteest" rather than be a phone.

    My next computer will likely be a FreeBSD machine. The hardware and software are no longer insanely great. Now they are just pretty.

  10. another illegible headline by swell · · Score: 1

    - and BTW, you forgot to capitalize 2 words.

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    1. Re: another illegible headline by Brockmire · · Score: 1

      That is fine. The editors commit much worse offences every fucking day.

  11. Steve Troughton-Smith by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Is Troughton his maiden name?

  12. They're afraid. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Not many comments here, unusually. I see that the ifanbois know to avoid this thread because the people who have been pointing out ALL companies do this user tracking are correct.