Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own anti-tracking crackdown
I&#x27;ve seen this coming for a while, and I&#x27;m honestly not sure what the next move to make is for those of us who have done as much as we can to escape the hoards of advertisers. I have no particular love for iOS, but I switched to an iPhone years ago to escape the google ecosystem. There isn&#x27;t really a plausible third option at this point. Even if Linux phones had usable hardware, more of the world is moving toward relying on apps that only run on DRMed systems with signed software from the data collecting duopoly. I can&#x27;t deposit a check or order a taxi with a rooted phone, and the trend is getting worse over time- not better.<p>I suppose the one up-side to the situation is that there&#x27;s not much point in even trying to spend the time figuring out how to root a device, or dealing with egregiously under-performing open smart phone hardware, and it might be possible to save some money going back to a dumb phone.