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> Users can also find out with whom their data may be shared by seeing all the third-party domains an app is contacting. Finally! Hopefully this sunlight makes
by diebeforei485 5y ago
> Users can also find out with whom their data may be shared by seeing all the third-party domains an app is contacting.
Finally! Hopefully this sunlight makes some of the cockroaches go away.
Yes, data can be shared server-side, but that reduces the economics of the tracking industry because of the added cost of bandwidth and complexity of supporting different server types instead of just an iOS SDK.
- clairity 5y agounfortunately, with the rise of cdn's, it's become much more difficult to differentiate useful connections from tracking/nefarious connections. oftentimes, you just get a generic cloudflare or aws server node, rather than the actual 3rd-party. sometimes the reverse lookup goes a step further to determine the final recipient of a connection, but not often.