Zuckerberg Now Claims Apple's App Tracking Transparency Rules Could Benefit Facebook

Despite campaigning heavily against Apple's upcoming anti-tracking rules, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today said that Facebook will "be in a good position" when Apple begins enforcing App Tracking Transparency and could even benefit from the changes.

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"It's possible that we may even be in a stronger position if Apple's changes encourage more businesses to conduct more commerce on our platforms by making it harder for them to use their data in order to find the customers that would want to use their products outside of our platforms," Zuckerberg said in a Clubhouse meeting this afternoon.

As CNBC points out, this is the most positive statement that Facebook has made yet about Apple's its App Tracking Transparency rules. It's possible that Facebook is changing its narrative as it has become clear that Apple has no plans to delay the implementation of App Tracking Transparency, and Facebook's attempts to stop it gave gained little steam.

With the launch of iOS 14.5, apps like Facebook will have to get express user permission before accessing an iPhone's advertising identifier or IDFA, which is used to track usage across apps and websites for ad targeting purposes.

Facebook has railed against Apple's planned privacy updates, taking out full page newspaper ads that aimed to position Apple as the enemy of small businesses. Facebook has claimed that businesses that use Facebook's advertising tools will suffer because they won't be able to target ads as effectively as they can now, but there are questions about how much data small businesses need to get their ads in front of the right customers.

App Tracking Transparency will impact Facebook's view-through conversion tracking, which lets ad companies determine how many people saw an ad and didn't click it, but later made a purchase related to the ad. The IDFA allows Facebook to match up those who buy an item with those who saw an ad, but without the IDFA, advertisers will not be able to accurately measure the effectiveness of Facebook and Instagram ads.

According to CNBC, Facebook has been preparing for App Tracking Transparency with the introduction of Facebook Shops and Instagram Shops, where brands can list and sell items directly on the social networks. Zuckerberg said that more than 250 million people are actively using the shops feature.

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obamtl Avatar
51 months ago
Translation: We've found new ways to make more money off people's data, so we're no longer as mad.
Score: 59 Votes (Like | Disagree)
moabal Avatar
51 months ago
The lizard king has spoken!

I mean what else is he going to say now that he ”lost”? He went through the five stages of grief in the last few weeks.
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51 months ago

"It's possible that we may even be in a stronger position if Apple's changes encourage more businesses to conduct more commerce on our platforms by making it harder for them to use their data in order to find the customers that would want to use their products outside of our platforms"
What?
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cbaca51 Avatar
51 months ago
Is this like reverse psychology? Lol
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Apple_Robert Avatar
51 months ago
If only people en mass had the courage to get rid of all things Facebook at once. I would love to see Zuckerberg suffer.
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gtmead09 Avatar
51 months ago
[HEADING=2]I fixed the title…….[/HEADING]
[HEADING=2]Apple Warns Facebook Company Not to Circumvent App Tracking Transparency Rules[/HEADING]

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