Despite an aggressive campaign against Apple's strict anti-tracking rules, which prevent companies from tracking users' activity for ad targeting. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook will be "in good shape" when Apple launches an app Transparency of tracking applications It can even take advantage of these changes, and it is able to manage it for the company.


Zuckerberg said: “It is possible that we may be in a stronger position if Apple’s privacy changes encourage more companies to do more business on our platforms to reach the largest number of customers, at a time when it will be difficult to find customers outside of Facebook.

Apple's upcoming privacy changes will inform users of the device ID tracking and ask them if they want to allow it or not. The tracking is based on a unique identifier on each iPhone and iPad called IDFA. Companies use this identifier to help target ads and estimate their effectiveness.

As CNBC points out, this Facebook statement is by far the most optimistic about Apple's application-tracking transparency rules. It was possible that Facebook would change its mind because it became clear that Apple had no plans to reverse the order to implement transparency of application tracking, and Facebook's attempts to stop or modify it did not help.

With the launch of iOS 14.5, apps like Facebook will have to obtain explicit permission from the user before accessing the iPhone's advertising identifier or IDFA, which is used to track usage across apps and websites for ad targeting purposes.

And Facebook has criticized Apple's planned privacy updates, as it protested against Apple's decisions in international newspapers and in full pages, aiming to put Apple in the position of the enemy for small businesses. Facebook claimed at the time that companies using Facebook's advertising tools now would suffer because they would no longer be able to target ads as effectively as possible.

In July 2020, David Wehner, Chief Financial Officer of Facebook, said that privacy changes in iOS 14 could harm our company's ability to target ads to users. And in August 2020, the company said the changes could lead to a drop of more than 50% in its audience network. As well as the advertising business, which represents less than 10% of the company's net revenue. The company told investors during its fourth-quarter earnings in January that Apple's changes could begin to affect Facebook's business as late as the first quarter.

App-tracking transparency will affect view-to-display conversion tracking on Facebook, allowing ad companies to determine how many people have seen an ad and haven't clicked on it, but who have subsequently made an ad-related purchase. IDFA allows Facebook to match those who buy an item with those who have seen an ad, but without IDFA, advertisers will not be able to accurately measure the effectiveness of Facebook and Instagram ads.


Facebook braced for the change by introducing more commercial products. In 2020, Facebook and Instagram stores were introduced. These features allow companies to directly insert their product catalogs on the most popular Facebook apps, and they can sell goods directly through Facebook and Instagram.

According to CNBC, Zuckerberg said on Thursday that Facebook already has 250 million active stores on its services and XNUMX million people are actively using the stores feature.

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