Comment by tencentshill
2 days ago
It sounds like they disabled the "advertising ID" OS feature, but there are many other ways to fingerprint a device for advertising. Maybe this will lead to real privacy reform, now that the true risks are apparent. Not to mention ICE using the same data against civilians.
Disabling "advertising ID" on iOS makes it extremely difficult to reliably fingerprint phones. Apple doesn't allow SDKs which attempt to bypass this, so the app would have to have a first party auth of some type.
>Disabling "advertising ID" on iOS makes it extremely difficult to reliably fingerprint phones.
You got this flipped. The whole point of "fingerprinting" is to build a stable identifier that works even if a explicit identifier (IMEI or advertising ID) isn't available. And yes, there are shady SDKs that do this without facing repercussions.
https://www.buchodi.com/i-broke-applovins-mediation-cipher-p...
That article is pure AI slop.
Dude, FAANG still manage to do it, day in day out.
IIRC they actually don't and it materially reduced Meta's profit when Apple rolled out the advertiser ID system.
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> app
Do they really allow any app to be downloaded on mil phones?
On iOS you can apparently simply check the APFS filesystem creation date and that's stable and unique enough to need almost no disambiguation. And any app can do this with no entitlements
Everything they do is a framework for consumer protection laws.
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It now directly affects the troops and military, who they ostensibly do care about. Maybe the citizens can have a little privacy reform, as a trickle-down treat.
The US will still surveil the troops and citizens. All this does is reduce the commercial attack surface for adversaries, privacy be damned.
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maybe trickle-down privacy will be more successful than trickle-down economics. one can hope.
Trump has demonstrated repeatedly, emphatically, and publicly that he does not care about the troops, or at least certainly not injured/captured/killed ones. Or minorities. Or non-citizens fighting for the country. Or citizens with non-citizen spouses/fiancees/parents.
If they cared about the troops, they wouldn't send them on bullshit missions like whatever we're doing in Iran.
You insist on using broad brushstroke language like "masked goons". Nobody is going to listen to your lack of nuance on other topics either.
How much nuance is there really to explore in that topic if even longtime ICE agents are themselves decrying the current state of the agency, and rightfully blaming the current administration for opening the floodgates to any redneck who can read a job application
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...
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Well you're right, "goon" is a value judgement, but if someone's critical thinking extends no further than 'bad word therefore bad argument' then I'm not sure I could reach them in any case.
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broad brushstroke guess; ICE
I mean, they are masked, right?
And they’ve been going around beating people and in a few cases killing them, like goons, right?
Just because terms can and have been used hyperbolically doesn’t mean that the same term cannot accurately describe other situations.
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Note: much of the privacy work is done by Israeli intelligence firms. If you think that it's "our" government, you'll be disappointed.
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Just out of interest, what news sources do you follow?
I ask because those claims are made by a very small few yet debunked by every independent investigation.
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