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Transparency Matters
Company blog · blog.lockdownprivacy.comsecuritybusiness
Transparency Matters is the company blog at blog.lockdownprivacy.com, writing about security and business. Since 2021, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Study: Effectiveness of Apple's app tracking transparency”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Transparency Matters for its privacy analyses of app tracking and its comparison of iOS and Android apps. The comments cite its studies as evidence rather than praising the writing directly.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Nuanced takes on transparency, privacy, and incentives.
Most-linked posts?
- Study: Effectiveness of Apple's app tracking transparency7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-09-23
- How to make $80k per month on the Apple App Store (2017)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-19
What Hacker News says?
> I know they have insanely high and probably unreasonable standards for their app store [2022] https://lifehacker.com/great-now-the-apple-app-store-has-mal... [2022] https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/malic... [2024] Fraudulent LastPass-impersonating app allowed in App Store: https://blog.lastpass.com/posts/2024/02/warning-fraudulent-a... [2024] "Scammed by the top result for 'Bitcoin wallet' in…
Comment linking /2020/11/25/how-to-make-80000.html
on “F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree”Submitted Study: Effectiveness of Apple's app tracking transparency as a story · 132 points
HN discussionI understand that perspective but in reality it does way more damage to those of us who want to provide services that are specifically trying to protect privacy by not having user accounts or storing user data server-side - and our users. There is no way for me to safely store user data, for a site that most users interact with once or twice a month, without having to store that data server-side and requiring some w…
Comment linking /2021/09/22/study-effectiveness-of-apples-app-tracking-transparency.html
on “Safari now supports File System Access API with private origin”Submitted How to make $80k per month on the Apple App Store (2017) as a story · 113 points
HN discussionthere has been a couple of studies demonstrating that basically is a useless feature, even worse, some apps track more when you "ask to not track". https://blog.lockdownprivacy.com/2021/09/22/study-effectiven...
Comment linking /2021/09/22/study-effectiveness-of-apples-app-tracking-transparency.html
on “Are iPhones Better for Privacy? Comparative Study of iOS and Android Apps”Submitted Study: Effectiveness of Apple's App Tracking Transparency as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThanks for pointing me to that. It's hard not to agree with the Transparency Matters conclusion but the 13% drop in Tracking Attempts is worth calling out so I'm glad the Oxford researchers did it. This is not my field but one thing that I don't get when looking over the Transparency Matters report [1] is why do some apps have 9 trackers and others have 300 requests? Are they really so different? And are they able t…
Comment linking /2021/09/22/study-effectiveness-of-apples-app-tracking-transparency.html
on “Are iPhones Better for Privacy? Comparative Study of iOS and Android Apps”Submitted Study: Effectiveness of Apple's App Tracking Transparency as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Study: Effectiveness of Apple's App Tracking Transparency as a story · 1 points
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