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Re:Telemetry in Front-End Tools by cowl on Thursday April 06, 2023 @05:40AM (#35466228)
> Because fingerprinting. I can't think of any way to stop fingerprinting. The best I can do (and I do) is to disallow JS from running, but that still leaves many possible signals.

This is even worse for native apps. webapps do fingerprinting because they don't have access to lowlevel native information. Any native App does not need to do Fingerprinting, they can just read device IDs directly, much more reliable that any method of fingerprinting.

Re:Telemetry in Front-End Tools by JohnFen on Thursday April 06, 2023 @07:26PM (#35475922)
> This is even worse for native apps

Not if those apps can't phone home.

Re:Telemetry in Front-End Tools by cowl on Friday April 07, 2023 @07:22AM (#35480460)
Unfortunetly less and less apps nowdays can work in an exclusive offline mode. There is no way to distinguish between legitimate traffic and "telemetry" trafic.