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Yes indeed, the limit is 50 which is of course enough to fully profile "regular people" who only have a handful of apps. Also don't forget, Meta/Google/TikTok/W
by isodev 4mo ago
Yes indeed, the limit is 50 which is of course enough to fully profile "regular people" who only have a handful of apps. Also don't forget, Meta/Google/TikTok/WhateverPalantir are updated weekly which means they can tweak their LSApplicationQueriesSchemes list and cover even more apps if they want to.
- ksec 4mo agoAre there legitimate reasons why an App should know I have installed?
- developerDan 4mo agoBack before Apple allowed users to set the default browser I had a feature in my app that presented a list of installed browsers when a user opens an external link, giving them the option to choose where it opened.
- rationalist 4mo agoAndroid gives me that option at the OS level.
- hnav 4mo agoE.g if gmail knows that you have maps or chrome it can deep link you into a particular view instead of opening safari.
- rationalist 4mo agoAt the OS level, Android gives me the option to open links in the corresponding app.
- isodev 4mo agoSo does iOS, but this is a different feature than what we’re discussing here. Since Android 11, Google copied the iOS model except Android is a bit more permissive and so you get a bit less privacy out of the box.
- thimabi 4mo agoSurely there should be a way to enable deep links with a fallback to Safari without needing Gmail to know what apps I’ve got installed
- isodev 4mo agoInteroperability mainly - if you want to deep link into a specific app or show a list of apps to open. These days we have more modern and privacy protecting APIs for making content available to the system or other apps… but that doesn’t stop the profilers.