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by reilly3000 1935 days ago
It’s very possible to personalize ads without personal information.

It’s not possible to de-personalize Facebook, its whole knowledge graph is built around identities. Permission to use that data can be managed internally but it’s always gathered and processed initially as personalized.

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Ok, but is that actually what Apple is doing? If the distinction is purely hypothetical, it's not relevant.