Facebook Pays for Study That Says Apple's iOS 14 Privacy Changes are Bad

Facebook has funded a study on Apple's new iOS 14 App Tracking Transparency enhancements, that claim to be solely for Apple's benefit.  

SSRN, the company that conducted the study, thanks Facebook for its assistance in sponsoring this report. They also say that the opinions expressed in the study are solely their own. 

According to the report, Apple's iOS 14 update is an anti-competitive approach camouflaged as a privacy-protection measure. Apple now forbids non-Apple apps from using information required to provide relevant, tailored advertising without explicit user consent. And users may only opt-in after being presented with a scary and deceptive alert about tracking, that Apple's own applications and services do not have to display because customers already opted in to Apple's own tracking. 

The document is a blistering formal accusation of Apple's iOS 14 revisions, a swe...