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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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