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Comment by orangepanda

3 years ago

> My son was surprised to see an ad or in app purchase in an Apple Arcade game.

They probably call it "included promotions" instead of ads, and pretend it’s okay.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34301509

It seems to be much less serious than the headline implies, as is common

  • I checked what "Apple’s Personalized Advertising privacy setting" actually means and this is the data that is collected to target ads:

    - account information like name/address

    - app downloads and subscriptions in App Store

    - what news articles you looked at in Apple News/Stocks

    - podcasts/movies/books/etc you downloaded via iTunes/TV

    - which ads you clicked on previously

    https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/apple-advertisin...