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Re:iPhone apps share data with trackers, ad companies and re... by tinus_hn on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @02:19AM (#20037281)
It doesn’t really matter if it’s common. It’s not acceptable to do that.
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Re:iPhone apps share data with trackers, ad companies and re... by threeseed on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @02:58AM (#20037468)
It's no different to your IP address coming in the request headers.
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Re:iPhone apps share data with trackers, ad companies and re... by StrangeDoctor on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @03:08AM (#20037519)
Unless you’re behind a nat, home uses a 192. office uses 10. Favorite coffee shop uses 172. You're letting internal details leak and give another factor of correlation
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Re:iPhone apps share data with trackers, ad companies and re... by tinus_hn on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @08:02AM (#20039060)
‘collect as much info as they are able to, put it in JSON and ship it to some server.‘ is different from your IP address being known to that server.
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