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I'd be very interested to know how this compares to apps on iOS. Can someone shed some light?
by mrzool 8y ago
I'd be very interested to know how this compares to apps on iOS. Can someone shed some light?
- saagarjha 8y agoMost of this is entirely possible on iOS and I would be surprised if the Facebook SDK didn't do the exact same thing.
- ankit219 8y agoThe process is the same. You integrate the SDK and it will keep sending the data. No permission needed either. For a user, he would not even know what SDKs are integrated with the app, as it is never mentioned anywhere and no way to check it either.
- izacus 8y agoMost of these frameworks are built for iOS first and Android second (you can quickly glance at their marketing material to find proof). There are also no restrictions (policy or system-wise) that prevent these SDKs from uploading data about your profile as well. It's unfortunate that Android is singled out here - it'll lure iOS users into false sense of privacy.
- tinus_hn 8y agoIt is more difficult for apps to know your identity in other apps on iOS. Although Apple has bungled it quite a few times these frameworks are supposed to use an identifier that you can reset and change to be per-developer. Also if the framework goes over the line, which might be defined as ‘bad publicity happens’, Apple might come down hard and simply ban the whole thing (no app that includes the framework gets approved).
- izacus 8y agoAs I developer I didn't really see much of a difference - most of profile matching I've seen these SDKs do is via social logins and not via device identifiers. The OSes currently are very close in what you can get to identify the user.
- Twisell 8y agoCan’t you, at least, activate limited ads tracking in iOS so that each app get a different "phoneID" making cross profiling more difficult?