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Re:Twitter Is Tracking Users’ Installed Apps for Ad Targeting by moj on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @10:02PM (#8665802)
There is also sysctl(), which returns running process info. Not the full installed app list, but arguably more useful and bonus it doesn't rely on app urls.

A (mostly old) discussion about it on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8275578/how-to-get-inform...

Re:Twitter Is Tracking Users’ Installed Apps for Ad Targeting by ryanwhitney on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @10:07PM (#8665810)
Strange. Seems like anything other than built-in apps should be anonymized in what's returned here. Is there a reason it isn't? Just something that's not allowed but slips through the review process?
Re:Twitter Is Tracking Users’ Installed Apps for Ad Targeting by moj on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @11:39PM (#8666014)
It's a lower-level c-api, so perhaps it's slightly harder to scan for in the submitted binaries?

Its overdue blocking/nerfing, and you can start the countdown for that now. (As others have noted). Hopefully it will be anonymized but not completely nixed; it provides legitimate debugging info.

Re:Twitter Is Tracking Users’ Installed Apps for Ad Targeting by ryanwhitney on Thursday November 27, 2014 @01:31AM (#8666231)
Didn't know this--thanks for the explanation.