Comment by close04
1 day ago
> Unless anonymization is provided by your browser, there is nothing you can do to prevent such identification technology
The OS could treat certain apps as untrusted and spoof or limit the access to these unique identifiers.
That puts the OS in the position of attempting to profile or determine if an application is accessing OS, hardware, and user details to build a fingerprint, vs using those capabilities to do something the user intends, which puts the OS developer into a performance sucking, soul sucking arms race against big and little brother surveillance/advertising platforms. I absolutely support the intention, just know that it's a brutal battle :(
The OS already does this for a living. A set of identifiers requested sporadically by an app can’t be what breaks its back. Isn’t iOS already doing something similar?