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Apple Quashes Chinese App Workaround for Ad Tracking

By Wayne Ma
· · Source: The Financial Times

An effort by a Chinese advertising group to circumvent Apple’s new rules over ad tracking has failed to gain traction, the Financial Times reported. The failure of the workaround shows how Apple still has leverage over Chinese apps even ones such as WeChat and Alipay that are considered too big to remove. Apple’s app store policies now require developers to ask for permission to track users...

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