What you need to know
Facebook has paid for a paper researching Apple s iOS 14 privacy and tracking transparency measures.
The paper says that Apple s changes are anti-competitive and designed only to benefit Apple.
It also says the new moves harm everyone else, but users are voting in droves to opt-out of tracking.
Facebook has funded a paper on Apple s new iOS 14 App Tracking Transparency changes which states they are designed to only benefit Apple.
The paper s abstract states:
Apple s iOS 14 update represents an anti-competitive strategy disguised as a privacy-protecting measure. Apple now prohibits non-Apple apps from using information essential to providing relevant, personalized advertising, without explicit user opt-in. And users may opt-in only after they are shown an ominous and misleading prompt about tracking, one that Apple s own apps and services need not display, because consumers are automatically opted in to Apple s own tracking. Apple s policy will have t