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Given M1 is in iPad Pro now, I think there could will be Apps seriously exploiting this to circumvent Do No Track in iOS 14.5.
by xucheng 5y ago
Given M1 is in iPad Pro now, I think there could will be Apps seriously exploiting this to circumvent Do No Track in iOS 14.5.
- edgyquant 5y agoHow? They’d have to communicate with an app that does have those permissions
- xucheng 5y agoAt the core, DO NOT TRACK prevents Apps having access to the Advertising Identifier. So different Apps cannot aggregate their analytics data about the users. This vulnerability enables different Apps to communicate a super cookie for cross-app tracking. A possible exploit would be to implement this feature in an AD SDK to be used by different Apps.
- intricatedetail 5y agoBut does it actually do anything? Apps can surely identify users by other means, e.g. IP, behaviour...
- marcan_42 5y agoThankfully, Apple should be able to statically analyze apps to look for this on App Store submission, as the App Store does not allow dynamic code (JITs).