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How YouTube Sidestepped Woes Over Apple’s Privacy Changes

How YouTube Sidestepped Woes Over Apple’s Privacy Changes

BY J. CLARA CHAN | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Digital Unlike Snapchat and Facebook, the video platform’s parent company, Google, has its own operating system — which came in handy when users started opting out of ad targeting on iOS devices. When Snap, the first major tech giant out of the gate with third-quarter earnings, revealed Oct. 21 an overall miss caused by Apple’s iOS privacy changes, shares tumbled 20 percent as analysts watched carefully to see whether the dent to targeted advertising would become a trend. For the most part, it has. Days later, Facebook (now officially rebranded as…
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Switching from Android to iPhone shows me what my friends really think

Switching from Android to iPhone shows me what my friends really think

Mike Sorrentino | CNET.Com Troy Warren for CNT When I chose to switch to iPhone from using an Android phone last month, I didn't think it was going to matter very much. Over the last few years while using Android phones, contacting friends and family has been easy because there are so many non-Apple services that let you text and video chat in 2021. While I was about to get access to iMessage and FaceTime with the switch, I considered it to be solely a perk of having an an iOS device. Surely, I thought, we'd moved past whether someone was a "green bubble" or a "blue bubble" in a…
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