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The trouble is Apple shows this compromise is unnecessary. They work hard to block fingerprinting (especially on iOS) and it WORKS. iOS devices are mostly indis
by etaioinshrdlu 7y ago
The trouble is Apple shows this compromise is unnecessary. They work hard to block fingerprinting (especially on iOS) and it WORKS. iOS devices are mostly indistinguishable. Notoriously impossible to fingerprint.
Granted desktop fingerprinting is more of a challenge due to differing OS's, screens, GPUs for WebGL, etc. But it doesn't seem impossible.
They have also blocked third party cookies for so many years. The world did not catch on fire.
They use an advertising ID the user can reset.
- Nextgrid 7y agoI believe they also have an "identifier for vendor" that persists even after app uninstalls/reinstalls and is the same across all the apps from the same developer, so Apple are not ideal either. Still better than the competition though.
- jefftk 7y agoI don't know very much about fingerprinting, but it sounds like the reason iOS devices are hard to fingerprint is that the hardware has very little variation?