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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This, roughly, is because mobile native OSes suck. Whatever you have been led to think about "sandboxing" (a security technology, which is related to, but not the same as, privacy), know that when you install a native app you're giving away the farm. Silently. In the background.
The performative rollbacks of the very worst (most efficient) reidentifiers is only that. Why? Because despite having massive power over the contents of their stores, neither Apple nor Google want to really push privacy