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>Disabling "advertising ID" on iOS makes it extremely difficult to reliably fingerprint phones. You got this flipped. The whole point of "fingerprinting" is to
by gruez 1mo ago
>Disabling "advertising ID" on iOS makes it extremely difficult to reliably fingerprint phones.
You got this flipped. The whole point of "fingerprinting" is to build a stable identifier that works even if a explicit identifier (IMEI or advertising ID) isn't available. And yes, there are shady SDKs that do this without facing repercussions.
https://www.buchodi.com/i-broke-applovins-mediation-cipher-protocol/ https://www.buchodi.com/i-broke-applovins-mediation-cipher-p...
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- what 1mo agoThat article is pure AI slop.
- pnw 26d agoTesting that on ten phones is hardly evidence. I am skeptical that the approach described would be very useful for reliable fingerprinting. IIRC Apple also specifically prohibits exporting device signals like boot time and available disk space, so that SDK would be in violation of their rules if the description is accurate. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/app-privacy-configuration/nsprivacyaccessedapitypes/nsprivacyaccessedapitype https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/ap...