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Unfortunately their protections do not really apply to their own apps. While 3rd party apps need to show individual dialogs to get access to location data, all

• gumby 6y ago
  Some of them do (especially, but not only, on the Mac) so I wonder if calling them out would cause them to change. They responded when with they were called out for letting their own Mac apps bypass connection filtering. Also some of these questions are asked in the setup dialogue. For this particular case (the user ID) they explicitly assert that they are also subject to it. I suspect what happens is their own apps don’t go through the App Store process. The lack of that kind of dog fooding is, IMHO, the real problem.
  • yarcob 6y ago
    > For this particular case (the user ID) they explicitly assert that they are also subject to it. It's kind of a ridiculous claim though, because Apple is the only company that has access to your device UUID (on iOS). 3rd party services aren't allowed to access the device UUID, so they get the IDFA. Apple doesn't need to use the IDFA, they just use the UUID which the user can't change, and link it to your Apple ID. Also, Apple really really wants you to have an Apple ID. iPhones are almost useless without an Apple ID (no way to install software). So it's not like you can opt out of Apple tracking you by not signing in with your Apple ID.