The opt-out feature, available on both iOS and Android, is a periodically updated list of the apps on your phone, which Twitter says it will use to serve you a more “tailored experience,” including “who to follow” suggestions, relevant tweets, and other content it adds to your timeline, as well as its promoted content.
Um, no thanks.
I’ve never been happier to use a third-party Twitter app on my iPhone.
Thus completely justifying my never-used-it Twitter status.
Not the website. Not their app. Not a third party app.
No account.
Zero.
I think people are overreacting. Microsoft, Apple and Google listen with their always on Hey Siri, hey Google or xBox go and we freak out if a free service provider uses some mostly unrevealing data to monetize their service and pay for their servers. And when we’ve calmed down most will share their disbelief on Facebook.
Very shitty of Twitter. Is there any Apple iOS/ MacOS setting to deny apps access to spy on us through our devices?
How can the Twitter App access a list of other 3rd party apps on IOS without asking for explicit permission? Surely this cannot get past the Apple app submission process?
It doesn’t really justify that, no. But I can still give you a cookie.
Apple doesn’t leverage ANY listened Hey, Siri data in order to serve up more tailored ads…so not comparable at all, no. But nice try.
If you read the article it describes which setting in iOS disables and prevents this.
I don’t mind the features, in fact they could be very useful. Its the opt out that bugs me.
No but in a way I wish they had a way to opt into Apple using our data to improve their systems. It feels like they have Radio, Genius, Match and “also bought” as totally independents but the results rather suck. If they could be used together things could work better. But let us pick if it is used and is it for merely our benefit or can it be feed into a public system. Maybe even toss in some of the old Lala follow etc features