Google-backed groups criticize Apple's new warnings on user tracking
> <i>Apple last week disclosed features in its forthcoming operating system for iPhones and iPads that will require apps to show a pop-up screen before they enable a form of tracking commonly needed to show personalized ads.</i><p>Christ almighty I don't think I can take more pop-ups.<p>They're just cancer. Cookies, newsletters, forced logins, individual folder permissions... how many bullshit popups do I have to deal with per day? It's just popup <i>fatigue</i>.<p>Pretty much the <i>only</i> popups I <i>ever</i> want to deal with are when apps need access to my private hardware (webcam etc.) or info (location, photos, contacts, etc.). You know, the actually important ones.<p>Things like cookies, tracking, etc. should be a browser- or OS-wide setting. Asking me individually for <i>every</i> site, for <i>every</i> app, is the absolute <i>worst user experience ever</i>. Sorry but this pattern just has to DIE.<p>My only hope is that the more that popups proliferate, the likelier there will be legislation against them, requiring system-wide settings instead. Kind of like legislation against unsolicited robocalls.