photosharing
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How Apple’s ‘Ask App not to Track’ Prompt Helped TikTok’s War Against Facebook
In April, 2021, Apple dropped a nuclear bomb on the world of online advertising. The company rolled out a new iPhone privacy setting called App Tracking Transparency, or ATT, that shows you, an iPhone user, a popup asking if you want to “Allow this app to track your activity across other companies’ apps and websites?”…
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Don’t Use Facebook? Here’s How to Check if It Has Your Phone Number and Email, and Delete Them
When you sign up for Facebook, Instagram, or any other social media app, it typically asks you to upload your contacts. Doing so helps the app find and surface friends who have accounts, but there’s a tradeoff: your contacts often contain a trove of data about people who don’t use their apps.
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We’re Publishing the Facebook Papers. Here’s How Meta Became the Internet’s Biggest Hub of Covid-19 Misinformation.
This piece is part of Gizmodo’s ongoing effort to make the Facebook Papers available to the public. See the full directory of documents here.
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The Brands Are Coming For BeReal, and There’s Nothing BeReal Can Do About It
Giant corporations are sneaking onto the ad-free photo-sharing app, and BeReal has no monetisation strategy in sight.