Apple cracking down on 'fingerprinting' with new App Store API rules

Re:Apple cracking down on 'fingerprinting' with new App Stor... by joshmanders on Friday July 28, 2023 @02:57PM (#36911528)

I delete Facebook a few times and every time I installed the app the first screen I got prompted with was "Hello Josh, would you like to sign in with your stored details?" Not all data is scrubbed. This persisted to even today running on iOS 17 Public Beta.

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Re:Apple cracking down on 'fingerprinting' with new App Stor... by Two4 on Friday July 28, 2023 @06:16PM (#36914093)

Did you also delete Messenger, Instagram, Whatsapp and Threads?

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Re:Apple cracking down on 'fingerprinting' with new App Stor... by joshmanders on Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:44AM (#36920252)

Yes.

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Re:Apple cracking down on 'fingerprinting' with new App Stor... by TheNewsIsHere on Sunday July 30, 2023 @03:39PM (#36935103)

I have experienced the same thing. Even when Apple made changes in Keychain policy to try to combat fingerprinting, “I never got the memo.” That sounds nuts, but I’m in the same boat.

I’ve had a few apps I’ve redownloaded months later, the only one from the developer, and my auth state was preserved.

I keep hearing that the Keychain data should be deleted, but my iCloud Keychain is filled with long-dead data

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Re:Apple cracking down on 'fingerprinting' with new App Stor... by can16358p on Friday July 28, 2023 @07:06PM (#36914582)

It's most probably keychain.

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Re:Apple cracking down on 'fingerprinting' with new App Stor... by bobbylarrybobby on Sunday July 30, 2023 @01:05AM (#36928006)

Probably keychain, but maybe just iCloud?

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