Apple’s New Ad Conversion Tracking Will Benefit User Privacy

Re:Apple’s New Ad Conversion Tracking Will Benefit User Privacy by duskwuff on Friday April 06, 2018 @05:02PM (#16777402)

> I have never seen an app that doesn't allow to completely deny location access.

That's because Apple explicitly tests for that during app review, and will reject apps which crash or refuse to work if they're denied access to Location Services or other APIs (photos, contacts, microphone, etc).

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Re:Apple’s New Ad Conversion Tracking Will Benefit User Privacy by Rjevski on Friday April 06, 2018 @05:56PM (#16777812)

So this is a non-issue. But technically, even if an app slips through the cracks and only allows "Always" and "While using the app" as options, you can force-quit the app without pressing either of the buttons on the modal and then deleting the app, thus not giving it any location information.

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Re:Apple’s New Ad Conversion Tracking Will Benefit User Privacy by duskwuff on Friday April 06, 2018 @06:38PM (#16778112)

> ...even if an app slips through the cracks and only allows "Always" and "While using the app" as options...

It can't. The permissions UI is rendered by the OS, not by the application. There's no way to hide the option to deny permissions.

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Re:Apple’s New Ad Conversion Tracking Will Benefit User Privacy by Rjevski on Saturday April 07, 2018 @08:00AM (#16780369)

Based on your previous reply I thought that the lack of apps that require location was due to Apple’s review process and not the fact that the “Never” button can’t be disabled.

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Re:Apple’s New Ad Conversion Tracking Will Benefit User Privacy by duskwuff on Saturday April 07, 2018 @12:46PM (#16781501)

It's both. If your app doesn't work properly when a user taps the "Never" button (which you can't get rid of), Apple rejects it.

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