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Facebook has opted for a delicate blackmail. But users do not want to consent to tracking

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IPhone owners with the latest version of the system installed iOS 14 may have recently gotten confused at the message they received. It showed that agreeing to activity tracking would allow Facebook remained a free service.

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As reported by the portal Benchmark.plFacebook does not like the new feature introduced in iOS 14 that allows users of brand devices Apple greatly reduce their tracking. They can choose whether and what information they want to provide to the application. The authors are obliged to specify for what purposes and what specific data their software uses.

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Facebook he had an idea how to convince as many iPhone owners as possible to transfer their data. After launching the Facebook application and Instagram a pop-up was displayed on the screen suggesting that using them free of charge requires the user’s consent to be tracked.

This was reported by, among othersin. technology enthusiast Ashkan Soltani.

What benefits would the users of both social networks have from this? Apart from personalized ads and the satisfaction from the support of small businesses that, according to Facebook, use the information it downloads – absolutely none.

Users are reluctant to do so

According to a report by the analytical company Flurry Analytics (owned by Verizon), which it refers to Benchmark, consent to tracking was expressed by only 5 percent. out of 2.5 million respondents in the United States, and 13 percent. among 5.3 million surveyed users from other countries of the world. Both numbers have remained the same since the release of the iOS 14.5 update. The result may indicate an increase in privacy awareness among Internet users.

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How do I turn off tracking in iOS 14.5?

We can use the App Tracking Transparency feature, which forces us to display information to the user for what purposes a specific application uses activity tracking. Turning it on is not easy.

Here you can change the tracking settingHere you can change the tracking setting Photo screen from settings in iOS 14

go to Settings, then select Privacy, and then Tracking. Now all you have to do is switch “Allow applications to request traceability”and the change will be confirmed by the green color on the switch next to it.

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