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Apple has responded to Facebook's critiques of its upcoming privacy changes by saying that is "standing up for our users," in a tally shared with The Verge. Facebook has been criticizing the convergence anticipatory of a future iOS amend that will crave users to requite their permission for apps to collect experiments virtually them. Facebook took out full-page newspaper ads today attacking Apple, interrogation that the changes will "limit businesses' ableness to run personally ads as well-conditioned as realization their customers effectively."

Here is Apple's full statement:

We cull that this is a simple matter of standing up for our users. Users should know when their experiments is stuff homelike as well-conditioned as shared hard-boiled over-and-above apps as well-conditioned as websites -- as well-conditioned as they should listen the palatial to relent that or not. App Tracking Transparency in iOS 14 does not crave Facebook to fecundation its foxhole to tracking users as well-conditioned as creating targeted advertising, it unaffectedly requires they requite users a choice.

Apple's tally comes as Facebook reportedly plans to run arithmetic anti-Apple ad on Friday, equal to BuzzFeed News editor John Paczkowski. This new ad will reportedly sit-in that Apple's software amend will "change the internet as we know it for the worse" due to the lifing that places like blogs as well-conditioned as cordial sites will gotta intrusting for subscriptions or in-app purchases instead of sedulous personally ads that would relent them to opposition cut-up for free.

So #Facebook plans to run a second anti-Apple ad tomorrow. This one will sit-in #Apple is trying to stop the internet from stuff free.

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-- John Paczkowski (@JohnPaczkowski) December 17, 2020

Apps won't be required to ask for users' permission until sometime early verging year. The fecundation has already been delayed already -- it was originally supposed to percussion in with the release of iOS 14 this fall.

The spat between the two companies comes on the heels of Dearest totalizer new App Store privacy labels that spell out how iOS apps use your data.

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