What the FT article claims is that Apple has shifted towards a much more lenient interpretation of App Store rules when it comes to user tracking. The original title is "Apple reaches quiet truce over iPhone privacy changes".
What Apple means by tracking is linking data from individual app users to third party data [1].
So in my view, it would indeed be a shift in Apple's position if they now accept that apps can link an individual's data to third party data as long as they somehow aggregate the result (e.g by creating cohorts) before actually targeting ads. But it's unclear to me whether they do in fact accept that.
I think merely mentioning aggregation is not enough to determine whether or not Apple has changed its position on this.
What Apple means by tracking is linking data from individual app users to third party data [1].
So in my view, it would indeed be a shift in Apple's position if they now accept that apps can link an individual's data to third party data as long as they somehow aggregate the result (e.g by creating cohorts) before actually targeting ads. But it's unclear to me whether they do in fact accept that.
I think merely mentioning aggregation is not enough to determine whether or not Apple has changed its position on this.
[1] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/app-privacy-details/#u...