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Why do you think you need safari or a browser? There are plenty of other (and easier) ways to make HTTP connections in iOS and implement account registration.
by davidu 16y ago
Why do you think you need safari or a browser? There are plenty of other (and easier) ways to make HTTP connections in iOS and implement account registration.
- gyardley 16y agoImplementing account registration, collecting an e-mail, and then using that e-mail as a unique ID to append data to the data broker's database -- this is possible, but rightly considered PII, so no data broker does this without user opt-in. (In this case the risk exceeds the rewards anyway, but that's another discussion.) If you're talking about setting a cookie with the data broker's user ID, which then can be read by the data broker on other websites - which is the standard way of shuffling non-PII data around in the absence of an explicit user opt-in - then this doesn't work due to iOS' application sandboxing. You can set a cookie with the data broker's user ID, but the data broker won't be able to retrieve it when the user's off elsewhere surfing the web, when it matters.
- davidu 16y agoUsing a cookie doesn't make something non-PII... Your user-agent and request details are enough for me to tie you to an existing account: https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://panopticlick.eff.org/
- nitrogen 16y agoNice. According to the panopticlick, I'm the only one with my exact plugin details. None of the other data is even needed to identify me, though being one of the .005% of people using Firefox 3.6.13 on Ubuntu 10.10 probably helps.