These techniques will evaluate all of the data points collected about the end user in this way and spit out an overall confidence score as to the likelihood of a match as the user moves between different websites and apps. Probabilistic matching accounts for the fact that some of the variables used in fingerprinting, for example a list of installed apps, are likely to change over time but are also not likely to experience sudden and dramatic changes. This differs from standard “deterministic” matching, a less refined method that simply looks for consistent data point matches across each session. Probabilistic matching is essentially a more advanced form of standard device fingerprinting that evaluates the likelihood of collected data elements matching and assigns a confidence score.
The Financial Times report cites internal Snap documents demonstrating that the company has recently tested “probabilistic matching” techniques for several months. Marketers have been attracted to the platform as of late due to its young userbase and variety of new features that are amenable to targeted advertising (such as Snap Maps), but all of that could take a heavy blow if 50% or more of Apple device users suddenly drop out of the market with the iOS 14.5 update. The messaging app known for its “disappearing” communications has been in a period of expansion recently, exceeding revenue estimates in the previous two financial quarters and seeing substantial growth in active daily users during that period (particularly in North America and Europe). Other than the prospect of losing millions in revenue due to Apple’s new privacy rules, Snapchat has been doing quite well. In February, two months before ATT was set to be introduced, Facebook began to push its own notification asking for users to consent to targeted advertising in an attempt to “provide more information”.įacebook and YouTube’s parent company Google were not immediately available to comment about the FT’s report findings.Companies driven to break privacy rules in face of “Adpocalypse” Meanwhile, Apple hit back by publicly criticising the business model of Facebook and similar social media platforms for their reliance on ad-tracking and targeting of user data.
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“Advertisers have responded by cutting back their spending at Snap, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube and diverted their budgets elsewhere: in particular to Android phone users and to Apple’s own growing ad business,” the report stated.įacebook has been the most vocal critic of the privacy change, having previously taken out a full-page ad in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal to claim that Apple’s changes would be “devastating to small businesses”.
This is because ATT requires apps to ask users for permission to collect and share data using Apple’s device identifier, a move which limits social media platform’s capacity to target iPhone owners, as part of Apple’s aims to protect and bolster user privacy. However, Snap “fared the worst as a percentage of its business” due to its advertising being mainly tied to smartphones. “Facebook has the most to lose because the cost of running advertisements on its platform has been increasing for years,” the report stated. According to the FT’s report, Facebook recorded the biggest financial loss “in absolute terms”.
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