- By Jane Wakefield
- Tech Journalist
While Google plans to limit data tracking for the Chrome browser, they also plan to extend it to Android smartphones.
They call it Privacy Sandbox and aim to limit the amount of user data advertisers can collect.
This rival, We Are Apple, does not force app developers to ask users for permission before tracking them.
This news doesn’t sit well with companies like Meta, we put dia code on apps to track consumer behavior.
This month, Meta tok says Apple’s changes will cost $10bn (£7.3bn) this year.
Na 85% of smartphones in the world use the Google Android operating system.
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Google will remove third-party cookies that use pipo browsing history to target Chrome Browser ads by 2023.
For a blog post, Google said it was extending Privacy Sandbox to Android apps and working on solutions to limit the sharing of user data and “work without cross-app identifiers, including the advertising identifier.”
Identifiers are tied to smartphones and the apps they use to collect information. Google says they’ll keep them in place for at least two years as they work “with the industry” on the new system.
“We are also exploring technologies that help reduce the potential for secret data collection, including safer ways for apps to integrate with advertising SDKs (software development kits),” Google said.
The tech giant doesn’t give details on how they want to do this.
Apple bin decides for April last year that app developers ask users for permission to use IDFA (Identifier for Advertisers). Data from an advertising company, Flurry Analytics, published by Apple, suggests that US users choose to opt out of tracking 96% of the time.
Google’s blog is not called Apple, but they refer to “ODA platforms”, but they say “don’t take a different approach to ad privacy and restrict existing technologies that developers and advertisers use.
“We’re thinking of saying – if we don’t provide a path first, we’re going to keep pipo private – such an approach will be ineffective”, dem tok.
Unlike Apple, Google relies on ad revenue.
Google’s attempt to create alternatives to third-party cookies on the Chrome browser never goes smoothly.
Privacy activists and advertisers don’t like the first proposal — a system they call Federated Cohort Learning (Floc).
Wetin Floc will do to hide the identity of users and assign them to a group with which they get similar browsing histories.
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Na Topics replaces Floc, and ad dem am recently. We can aggregate users for internal subject groups selected from approximately 350 categories at one time, including fitness or travel.
When a person visits a website, the topics show the site and the advertising partners dia three of the interests dia from the previous three weeks.
Di Competitions Market Authority is not reviewing Google’s transition to more privacy-focused systems and says they plan to extend them to Android apps.
“We will continue to closely monitor and engage with Google on the nature and details of dia proposals,” dem tok.
The average app includes at least six third-party trackers whose sole function is to collect and share data online, according to an Apple commission report last year.
And any one data broker estimates they get data on up to 700 million consumers, according to research firm Cracked Lab.
Regulators, such as the Information Commissioner’s Office for the UK, are investigating the advertising ecosystem, in particular how they sell advertisements – known as real-time auctions – that place automatically billions of online advertisements on web pages and apps every day.