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For iPhone users, the last point in the article’s FAQ addresses iOS; excerpt below: > No evidence of abuse has been observed in iOS browsers and apps that we t
by merelysounds 1y ago
For iPhone users, the last point in the article’s FAQ addresses iOS; excerpt below:
> No evidence of abuse has been observed in iOS browsers and apps that we tested. That said, similar data sharing between iOS browsers and native apps is technically possible. (…) It is possible that technical and policy restrictions for running native apps in the background may explain why iOS users were not targeted by these trackers.
- cosmic_cheese 1y agoIt’d be difficult to make work reliably on iOS due to how it handles background processes. Processes can’t just hang around forever, they’re expected to quickly and efficiently finish their task and close until their next scheduled run (which is determined by the system — devs can request to run whenever they want, but processes that are badly behaved get downranked and run less often). If its task is taking too long the system unceremoniously kills the process. This is limiting and makes implementing programs like Syncthing more challenging but also helps keep the battery eaters and eternal listeners until control.