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Re:Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking al... by sodality2 on Monday May 13, 2024 @04:23PM (#40347962)
That’s because Apple themselves limit access to authenticated (but supposedly anonymous - aka doesn’t matter whose) Apple IDs before allowing access to the geodatabase
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Re:Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking al... by jimbobthrowawy on Monday May 13, 2024 @08:24PM (#40350202)
Not for long, since cross compatibility with android is apparently coming.

IIRC, they need you running macos to get the data via a plugin for apple mail. If you only needed an appleID, it could likely be done in a web browser.

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Re:Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking al... by lolinder on Monday May 13, 2024 @09:14PM (#40350520)
The cross compatibility is only for anti-stalking features, and is probably implemented in such a way that you couldn't use it to implement a tracker that works in both systems.
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Re:Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking al... by jimbobthrowawy on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @02:17PM (#40358278)
You're right. I think I misremembered a news article I read about a week or so ago, that I can no longer find.
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Re:Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking al... by mschuster91 on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @02:49AM (#40352333)
What I don't get is why nobody seems to have done the work to reverse engineer the onboarding workflow, and why Apple doesn't allow onboarding on Mac devices. I had to buy a (used) iPhone just to onboard AirTags, despite onboarding Mac devices works without one.
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