Analysis | When you ‘Ask app not to track,’ some iPhone apps keep snooping anyway
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To test Apple’s newest privacy protections, we watched the data flow out of 10 popular apps. Some appeared to be “fingerprinting” phones, a more invasive form of tracking.
  • SudoDnfDashY@lemmy.ml
    5·
    3 years ago

    Its like the, “Ask website not to track” feature in FireFox. Its really like saying, “Oh no, Please don’t track me”.

      • ysu@lemmy.ml
        21·
        3 years ago

        They’re not privacy focused if they track you in the first place.

  • aexiruch@lemmy.ml
    5·
    3 years ago

    No “Please do not” feature will ever work. Make sure something cannot be done, then bolt on an additional “well, here is a bone” opt-in feature (incl. the option to send fake data), if you really need to. Everything else is hoping, quite unreasonably, the “threat” of a lawsuit is sufficient to stop companies from violating your expressed preference. Hint: If they gave a damn they’d not do that shit in the first place.