France Fines Apple $162M for App Tracking Transparency, Taking the Side of Surveillance Advertisers Over Users

John Gruber: It’s like a consortium of sketchy pawn shops complaining to the authorities after a popular retailer successfully cracked down on an organized shoplifting/pickpocketing ring, and the authorities then fining the retailer for the damage to the pawnbrokers’ business fencing stolen goods — and for exposing the police as ineffective. This decision by French authorities melts my brain, and…