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A website Can easily deduce your phone model based on the browser agent attribute which tells the operating system and the screen resolution with a fair degree
by raw_anon_1111 1y ago
A website Can easily deduce your phone model based on the browser agent attribute which tells the operating system and the screen resolution with a fair degree of certainty, an app can’t get your phone number, it can get your GPS with your permission. But so can a web page with your permission. There is a standard JavaScript API for it. Contacts are also gated by permissions.
And there is a Contact Picker API for browsers
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Contact_Picker_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Contact_Pic...
- ranger_danger 1y ago> an app can’t get your phone number Apps can absolutely get your phone number: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2480288/programmatically-obtain-the-phone-number-of-the-android-phone https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2480288/programmatically...