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Re:Apple cracking down on 'fingerprinting' with new App Stor... by BillinghamJ on Friday July 28, 2023 @09:56AM (#36906836)
That's not really fingerprinting - it's just ensuring your login is consistent against the apps of a single vendor

I don't think Apple are aiming to change that with this

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Re:Apple cracking down on 'fingerprinting' with new App Stor... by kalleboo on Friday July 28, 2023 @10:29AM (#36907301)
The fact that Keychain isn't in this list of APIs despite also being available to all apps by a developer (and optionally synced via iCloud) also points to them being OK with shared logins between apps (or they just forgot???)
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Re:Apple cracking down on 'fingerprinting' with new App Stor... by saagarjha on Friday July 28, 2023 @11:06AM (#36907864)
It seems like they forgot the actual API that allows tracking users across installs, lol
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Re:Apple cracking down on 'fingerprinting' with new App Stor... by smotched on Friday July 28, 2023 @11:16AM (#36908059)
I dont think the keychain can be used to track...
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Re:Apple cracking down on 'fingerprinting' with new App Stor... by kalleboo on Friday July 28, 2023 @09:58PM (#36916021)
Just to the same or slightly higher extent as UserDefaults which is on this list
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Re:Apple cracking down on 'fingerprinting' with new App Stor... by halJordan on Friday July 28, 2023 @12:44PM (#36909580)
Fingerprinting is more of an intent. Google will absolutely tell you it's just to ensure consistency among their products. Their most important product being targeted advertising. Using it to enable consistent targeted advertising would be what the advertising industry calls fingerprinting.
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