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Apple jams Facebook's web-tracking tools

Apple has highlighted Facebook's services on a webpage that explains how iOS 12 will reduce screen time. [Courtesy, Apple]

Apple will attempt to frustrate tools used by Facebook to automatically track web users, within the next version of its iOS and Mac operating systems.

"We're shutting that down," declared Apple's software chief Craig Federighi, at the firm's developers conference.

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