User Tracking Back On iOS 6 188
First time accepted submitter connor4312 writes "Apple got caught with its hand in the cookie jar when privacy experts protested the use of a universal device identifier, or UDID, to track the online preferences of iPhone and iPad users. Enough is enough, right? Well, maybe not. It looks like device tracking is back with iOS 6, courtesy of a new tracking technology: IDFA, or identifier for advertisers."
Oh no! (Score:5, Funny)
Does this really shock anyone? (Score:5, Funny)
IDFA? (Score:5, Funny)
Full armor, full ammo, all weapons, but no keys.
I think I'll wait for IDKFA.
Re:Oh no! (Score:5, Funny)
Real hipsters use typewriters [xojane.com]
Re:IDFA? (Score:4, Funny)
If they can get me an iPhone that lets me walk through walls, I might just reconsider my no-Apple policy.
Re:Unlike before, now you can turn it off (Score:5, Funny)
If you want to turn off device tracking using the IDFA on your iOS6 device, do the following:
6) Press and hold the 'Power' button for five minutes.
7) Say "Steve Jobs is now a god" seven times and really mean it.
8) Put the phone in a glass case on a raised pedestal under spotlights in the middle of your living room.
9) Leave it there for forty days and forty nights.
10) Take phone out of the glass case and place it in a 100 lb. bag of virgin white rice.
11) Hermetically seal bag.
12) Leave it there for three days.
Device tracking will now probably be turned off for the next 15 minutes. If it's not, try repeating the instructions above, but this time do them with enthusiasm.
Re:Oh no! (Score:3, Funny)
OMG location based features know our location!!!!! Who would have thunk it.