In my spitball theory here — which I think Heer shares — App Tracking Transparency is not the cause of Facebook’s troubles, but just an extra kick in the pants as they stumble downhill toward legacy media irrelevance — a decline that was in the making years before “Ask App Not to Track” was in our vernacular.

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    22 years ago

    Per-user, not really. But on the scale of reaching the global audience, that small privacy improvement really adds up. The privacy-aware have long since been able to disable/delete their ad tracking ID which is essentially all this does anyways, but they were always a very small and negligible impact to the overall profits of these ad-tracking companies.

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      2 years ago

      I dearly wish Google would switch back to contextual advertising, and then add proper tracking protection to Android and Chrome out-of-the-box

      It’s frustrating knowing there are talented security-minded and privacy-minded folks at Google who aren’t allowed to ship any code that would jeopardise the money tree