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That's not really fingerprinting - it's just ensuring your login is consistent against the apps of a single vendor I don't think Apple are aiming to change tha

That's not really fingerprinting - it's just ensuring your login is consistent against the apps of a single vendor I don't think Apple are aiming to change that with this

kalleboo 3y ago
The fact that Keychain isn't in this list of APIs despite also being available to all apps by a developer (and optionally synced via iCloud) also points to them being OK with shared logins between apps (or they just forgot???)
- saagarjha 3y ago
  It seems like they forgot the actual API that allows tracking users across installs, lol
- smotched 3y ago
  I dont think the keychain can be used to track...
  - kalleboo 3y ago
    Just to the same or slightly higher extent as UserDefaults which is on this list
halJordan 3y ago
Fingerprinting is more of an intent. Google will absolutely tell you it's just to ensure consistency among their products. Their most important product being targeted advertising. Using it to enable consistent targeted advertising would be what the advertising industry calls fingerprinting.