[chancesmith5]

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Advertising identifier?? I believe my days with an iPhone are numbered. I'm not interested in being tracked, by anyone, and I think I've just about hit my limit of how much of it I can tolerate.

You do realise you can turn location services off right? Dont switch from iPhone. iPhone is the best smartphone

[redgeminipa]

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Advertising identifier?? I believe my days with an iPhone are numbered. I'm not interested in being tracked, by anyone, and I think I've just about hit my limit of how much of it I can tolerate.

Start paying for apps instead of opting for the free ones. That'll solve a big part of your problem.

In all seriousness, Google sure as hell wouldn't add a feature like this to Android. They want ALL of your info to SELL to advertisers. Be glad Apple is thinking about their users and their privacy.

[tswright]

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user88331 said
Advertising identifier?? I believe my days with an iPhone are numbered. I'm not interested in being tracked, by anyone, and I think I've just about hit my limit of how much of it I can tolerate. This is just a name for a feature that existed earlier. The point of the feature is to help prevent targeting. So, it's a good thing rather than an aid for an advertiser to track you.

You are very patient, Chris.

[jpmhughes]

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"This beta version of iOS 6.1 contains bug fixes and improvements. For more information, visit: http://developer.app...1/releasenotes/ This beta version of iOS should only be deployed on devices dedicated for iOS 6.1 beta software development." The article doesn't mention that this is a beta version that should only be deployed on devices dedicated for iOS 6.1 beta software development.

The article doesn't mention that it is beta, because it is not beta. You are linking to the beta software before the actual release of 6.1 to the public. In fact, most people would not even have access to the page you reference unless they are members and participating in the beta.

http://developer.app...1/releasenotes/

[technologist]

michaelant, on 28 January 2013 - 02:28 PM, said:

Other than an understandably creepy feeling some may have about targeted advertising (which I don't happen to share) does anyone have a concrete example of how targeted advertising could be harmful? If I have to get ads, I actually want them to be relevant to me. And no, I have no vested interest. I'm not a marketer, etc.

Since the tracking algorithms are proprietary, it's hard to come up with "concrete" examples. We don't know what they know, so we don't know how they might be using it against us. That's part of the problem: advertisers get data on us, but we don't know what they know, how they use it, or who they even are.

One simple hypothetical example: an marketer determines that you are a loyal customer of Company X. As a result, you are never given discount coupons for discounted products from Company X, since the company knows you'll buy its stuff anyway; meanwhile, other customers are regularly offered discounts for Company X products.

Frankly, I never want to see ads that are "relevant" to me. I want to see ads for, say, retirement communities and feminine products and children's action figures, which are easy for me to ignore and have zero chance of enticing me to part with my money. I have never had a problem finding things to spend it on even without advertisers' assistance.

[bastion]

michaelant, on 28 January 2013 - 02:28 PM, said:

Other than an understandably creepy feeling some may have about targeted advertising (which I don't happen to share) does anyone have a concrete example of how targeted advertising could be harmful? If I have to get ads, I actually want them to be relevant to me. And no, I have no vested interest. I'm not a marketer, etc.

Probably the biggest risk is not posed by the advertisers themselves but by the recipients or others associated with them. There was a news item a while back about Target sending ads and coupons for infant care items to a teenager. They had tracked her shopping habits and noted that she was buying all the things that newly-pregnant women buy. Her father, not knowing she was pregnant or even at risk of becoming so, was furious and went to the store to complain about their vile insinuations. Luckily for all involved he wasn't angry enough to go there armed, but one could easily imagine an unpleasant escalation.

[Kennethfcooper]

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"This beta version of iOS 6.1 contains bug fixes and improvements. For more information, visit: http://developer.app...1/releasenotes/ This beta version of iOS should only be deployed on devices dedicated for iOS 6.1 beta software development." The article doesn't mention that this is a beta version that should only be deployed on devices dedicated for iOS 6.1 beta software development. The article doesn't mention that it is beta, because it is not beta. You are linking to the beta software before the actual release of 6.1 to the public. In fact, most people would not even have access to the page you reference unless they are members and participating in the beta. http://developer.app...1/releasenotes/

I went to settings : general : software update.
I guess I am not most people. I am also not a beta software developer.

[armadillo7306]

I wonder if this changes anything with regard to listening to podcasts? I've avoided 6.0 because apparently with that update I can no longer listen to podcasts in the Music app but would have to use Apples pitifully poor Podcast app. It may sound like a small thing but I listen to podcasts every day and the podcast app was and is horrible to use.
"Progress was good once, but it went on too long."
AndyB, NH.

[jackster1212]

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I wonder if this changes anything with regard to listening to podcasts? I've avoided 6.0 because apparently with that update I can no longer listen to podcasts in the Music app but would have to use Apples pitifully poor Podcast app. It may sound like a small thing but I listen to podcasts every day and the podcast app was and is horrible to use. "Progress was good once, but it went on too long." AndyB, NH.

Andy,

I can't answer the question yet on 6.1 (haven't updated) but as a fellow Podcast listener, I sympathize and want to let you know: You CAN still listen to Podcasts via your music app on the iPod. It just requires a little tweaking and compromise.

You can find fuller instructions around the web, but the short of it is that you delete the Podcast app that gets installed... and then you use iTunes on your computer to pick up the podcast episodes (can't do this anymore via music on the iOS device). To get them to the device, you simply sync by cable when you're ready to load up on new episodes.

It's not ideal in that you can only get the Podcasts via cable sync with the computer, but it's far better than using the Podcast app, which is not only not so good... but also doesn't play nice with the Nike+ running app, which I'm always using when I listen to Podcasts.