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xiaomai | 3 months ago

Agree with you about fingerprinting (also a bummer). I guess the difference here though is that I must be actively engaging with a website in order for it to be tracking me, but an app (I assume) can be tracking me basically whenever it wants.

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raw_anon_1111|3 months ago

An app on iOS doesn’t just run constantly in the background unless it’s playing sound or using the GPS. For almost everything else you can explicitly turn off “allow background refresh” on a per app basis