Doing Laundry on Campus Without a Phone

Re:Doing Laundry on Campus Without a Phone by sneak on Saturday September 02, 2023 @07:39AM (#37360569)

Nah; apps can share data. If you log in to a dedicated video browsing account in the YouTube app, Google Maps and Google Docs can now associate your YouTubing account with your work and personal accounts. The ad company can now connect your personal email correspondence, your browsing, your work documents, your work travel, your personal travel, and the videos you watch. Share link trackers give them parts of your social graph even if you don't share contacts permission, but they build that up ad hoc from your email contents anyway.

The sandboxing inside of apps is mostly an illusion.

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Re:Doing Laundry on Campus Without a Phone by scarface_74 on Saturday September 02, 2023 @09:19AM (#37361266)

You realize a website can do the same thing don’t you?

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Re:Doing Laundry on Campus Without a Phone by sneak on Monday September 04, 2023 @04:27AM (#37378398)

Only with third party cookies enabled, or if you don't use multiple profiles/containers.

Sandboxing on the web is fairly good because it has to be. The holes deliberately punched in app sandboxing are the problem.

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Re:Doing Laundry on Campus Without a Phone by scarface_74 on Monday September 04, 2023 @01:21PM (#37382637)

And they can still do enough via the server

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