Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone

Re:Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone by olliej on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @06:59AM (#25429461)

The purpose of IDFA was to provide an identifier that wasn't hardwired to the device - apps were going to absurd lengths to get the UDID, and IDFA gave them something ostensibly sufficient that users could in theory reset at will.

I give good odds ad frameworks will again start trying to circumvent the platform security to get a UDID or equivalent.

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Re:Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone by ogre_codes on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @12:17PM (#25432354)

Then apps get kicked out of the App Store for violating App Store Policy and word gets around that it's a shitty ad network.

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Re:Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone by andrekandre on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @04:02PM (#25448602)

if i remember correctly they (apple) still dont block access to the devices name (e.g "Johns iPad Pro"), so thats also one easy way to fingerprint* even without idfa

* to say nothing about the fact that apps can easily get my first name without me knowing it being super creepy

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