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Re:Oracle’s TikTok deal accomplishes nothing by vezycash on Monday September 14, 2020 @01:34PM (#24472783)
>The account-less app alone tracks way more than what microsoft could ever track with all their account systems.

I'm using TikTok lite.

TikTok only requested STORAGE permission when I wanted to save a video. That's all.

Tubemate - one of those youtube apps requires: Read phone state and location permissions. Won't launch without it.

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Re:Oracle’s TikTok deal accomplishes nothing by zingplex on Monday September 14, 2020 @01:38PM (#24472839)
There are still a ton of things Android apps can use to track you without permission. [1]

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/public_events/141...

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Re:Oracle’s TikTok deal accomplishes nothing by adrr on Monday September 14, 2020 @02:13PM (#24473257)
Those are big issues for Android. What about IOS? As far as i know there is no persistent ID an app can grab from the OS.
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Re:Oracle’s TikTok deal accomplishes nothing by zingplex on Monday September 14, 2020 @02:33PM (#24473474)
iOS is very restrictive and Apple has actively been working to thwart fingerprinting techniques, so you'd have a hard time going about getting something reliably unique.

If you are targeting older builds, there is stuff like this which is pretty neat [1].

[1] https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2019/papers/405.pdf

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Re:Oracle’s TikTok deal accomplishes nothing by mdni007 on Monday September 14, 2020 @01:39PM (#24472848)
Correct me if I'm wrong but on Android wouldn't an app have access to all files if storage permission is enabled?
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Re:Oracle’s TikTok deal accomplishes nothing by izacus on Monday September 14, 2020 @01:41PM (#24472879)
Not anymore.
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Re:Oracle’s TikTok deal accomplishes nothing by JetSpiegel on Saturday September 19, 2020 @08:59AM (#24527129)
It's still the fact for the vast majority of phones. That Storage Scope feature it's not even enabled by default, and only for Android 11, which isn't even released.

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/11/privacy/stor...

Apps can still request the legacy behaviour (i.e. accessing all files on your phone). No thanks.

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Re:Oracle’s TikTok deal accomplishes nothing by DudeInBasement on Monday September 14, 2020 @01:35PM (#24472803)
I'll take, what is internet cookie for 1000 alex
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