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Apple Throws a Wrench in Facebook's Data-Gathering Engine
It's now essentially forcing people to repeatedly decide whether they will allow Facebook to track information on their web browser actions.
Get ready for some changes.
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Apple's software-focused event on Monday was a momentous moment — for Facebook Inc.
Toward the tail end of a more than two-hour Apple presentation to software developers, the company announced changes to its Safari web browsers that — assuming they remain unchanged and function as Apple sketched out — seem set to seriously hamper Facebook's contentious data-harvesting practices, and those of many other internet companies that count on following people as they roam around the web.