Apple blocks Facebook’s web-tracking tools
(Source: marketing-interactive) In the next iterations of iOS and MacOS, Apple will attempt to frustrate tools used by Facebook to automatically track web users such as ‘like’ buttons. “We’re shutting that down,” Craig Federighi, Apple’s software chief, at WWDC. Web browser Safari will ask for permission before allowing the social network to monitor their activity. Federighi said that Facebook keeps tabs on people in a number of ways that are not obvious to consumers. “We’ve