What is Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.2 (ITP) Change?

With Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP), Apple has been rolling out a new way for handling Cookie tracking in Safari, which makes up ~17% of web traffic (and 49% for US Mobile Web traffic). ITP greatly restricts cookie-based tracking - forcing advertisers to adjust their promotion methods away from cookie tracking. It's important to update your tracking setup, if needed, Firefox has rolled out the cookie-blocking solution (see here), and it's been rumored Google is moving in the same direction.

With ITP 2.2, Apple has greatly increased their restrictions around first-party cookies tracking. If you're doing traditional cookie tracking, this will have a direct impact on your attribution, but fortunately we have two workarounds for this listed below.

Great question! It depends on your current tracking method.

If you are using Server-to-Server (S2S) tracking (postbacks), there will be no impact for you since S2S doesn't rely on cookies for tracking.

If you are using cookie-based tracking, here is what you should know: The most effective solution is for your advertisers to switch from cookie-based to S2S tracking.
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The exact process for an advertiser to switch from Cookie to S2S tracking is dependent on their backend platform setup. We recommend starting a conversation with your Advertisers about ITP 2.2, the expected drop in performance, and why they should transition to a S2S tracking format. S2S is more robust and reliable as a tracking solution, therefore you should see higher tracked conversions after your advertisers move to S2S tracking.

The JS SDK for Direct Linking from Everflow is the best tracking solution if you're working with Advertisers that are unable to support Postbacks.

Everflow provides a solution for Direct Linking which bypasses the traditional click via cookie-based tracking.
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You will need to place our JavaScript click tag on each of your landing pages, and the conversion tag on your confirmation page. For a full guide to implementing our Direct Linking solution - [Click Here].