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marketingtech commented on Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy   techcrunch.com/2024/12/19... · Posted by u/aquir
enos_feedler · 8 months ago
If Meta is successful in gaining access to iPhone user data, will this be exclusive to Meta or would Apple be required to open access more broadly?
marketingtech · 8 months ago
More broadly, but not unconditionally. They can apply reasonable (definition of that can be another point of contention) restrictions via their app review process as long as the restrictions are applied consistently to all applicants.
marketingtech commented on Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy   techcrunch.com/2024/12/19... · Posted by u/aquir
F7F7F7 · 8 months ago
As someone who’s personally worked on dozens of M&A driven vertical integrations and “ecosystems” (lol)…interoperability is inherent to being a first party.

3rd parties aren’t going to get the same access or treatment for a number of reasons…many of which Apple has outlined.

marketingtech · 8 months ago
There are several reasons for a platform to not want to offer 3p interop, from security to privacy to competition, but the DMA is targeted EU regulation to mandate interop specifically for the big tech cos’ platforms and this is one of the first major tests of the law.
marketingtech commented on Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy   techcrunch.com/2024/12/19... · Posted by u/aquir
marketingtech · 8 months ago
Meta’s request for interoperability is regarding their hardware, not their flagship apps, if you take it at face value.

They want their glasses and headsets to integrate as tightly as an Apple Watch or Vision Pro to show messages and other notifications, connect to WiFi, and share files with an iPhone, but Apple uses private APIs for their own devices. Meta says that is anticompetitive and the APIs should be public.

Apple lays out their rebuttal in detail here and it’s clear Meta asked for everything in the hopes that Apple will settle for some of these things: https://developer.apple.com/support/downloads/DMA-Interopera...

marketingtech commented on Meta's AI Abundance   stratechery.com/2024/meta... · Posted by u/robenkleene
dkrich · 10 months ago
This is a well thought out bull case for AI paying off at Meta. I just wonder what the upper limit is on ad spend in this economy from that long tail of advertisers, especially to Meta users which seem to be mostly focused on consumer goods. Surely Meta is already tapping into an enormous portion of that limit.
marketingtech · 10 months ago
If AI can help an advertiser get the outcome they want in 1000 ad impressions instead of 5000 ad impressions (with more precise targeting or more appealing creative), Meta can 5x the price of those 1000 ad impressions, keep the advertiser happy with the same ROI they had before, and sell 4000 additional impressions to someone else as incremental profit.

Or they could 4.9x the price to show the current advertiser a better ROI and encourage higher spend from them, while still having the 4000 extra impressions to sell.

marketingtech commented on Calls to investigate tax sites for sharing financial information with Meta   theverge.com/2023/7/12/23... · Posted by u/DemiGuru
mikece · 2 years ago
I don't like the word "share" in this context: these financial companies didn't simply give away info, they got something in return and I would like more info about what they got.
marketingtech · 2 years ago
The financial companies got higher performing ads delivered to the right people, as well as the ability to measure the actions taken from the ads. In exchange, they gave away your data for free.

Every company running ads on the internet is making this value exchange, but these financial companies screwed up by pouring protected data into Google's and Meta's dumb pipes.

marketingtech commented on Calls to investigate tax sites for sharing financial information with Meta   theverge.com/2023/7/12/23... · Posted by u/DemiGuru
kramerger · 2 years ago
Wait, why would Meta & Google even want your tax data??

Peeking at your credit cards purchase historic I can understand, as it tells them your shopping habits and helps them target you better. But tax data?? Why??

marketingtech · 2 years ago
They don't. There is no semantic value to this data for them. To Google and Meta, it's an arbitrary data point. To tax companies, it is data that can utilized to either target the delivery or measure the performance of their own ads.

That said, there doesn't need to be semantic value for this to feed into an ML model that ends up associating tax data attributes with other attributes.

marketingtech commented on Big Tech can transfer Europeans’ data to US in win for Facebook and Google   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/isaacfrond
marketingtech · 2 years ago
The EU issued fines to Google and Meta for billions of dollars a few weeks before they decided this data transfer would be allowed. Wonder if they'll actually be required to pay the full fines now.
marketingtech commented on Threads hits 5M signups in the first four hours   threads.net/t/CuVxMmvLNsG... · Posted by u/wfme
thomasahle · 2 years ago
How does it violate the Digital Markets Act?
marketingtech · 2 years ago
EU customer data must be stored and served within the EU, and that guarantee can't be made with a federated service.
marketingtech commented on We Built a Meta Pixel Inspector   themarkup.org/show-your-w... · Posted by u/andsoitis
glitchcrab · 3 years ago
> It's crazy how much data these scripts collect

And you're ok with this?

marketingtech · 3 years ago
Businesses choose to send this data to the ad platforms for their own benefits - better targeting, measurement, and ML optimization of their ad campaigns.

The businesses are legally accountable for the data they're sending and complying with privacy laws, but to most platforms it's a dumb pipe for whatever data the business chooses to send.

u/marketingtech

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