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Ask HN: How do Google's iOS apps track your identity even after reinstalling?

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Re: Ask HN: How do Google's iOS apps track your identity even after reinstalling?

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Any Apple engineers reading this, please give users control over this. This is a privacy hole.

Don't think they can. Keychain is supposed to be a secure storage solution, so I can't imagine they want users to be able to view that data, and it would be hard to manage it without knowing what it was. That said, I found a post from last year saying that they would like to phase key-chain persistence out at some point, but it was fairly free of actual commitments.

> Keychain is supposed to be a secure storage solution, so I can't imagine they want users to be able to view that data

This seems at odds with the fact that macOS comes with a built-in app called "Keychain Access" that allows you to view the contents of the keychain (including iCloud keychain).

Re: Ask HN: How do Google's iOS apps track your identity even after reinstalling?

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doesn't it just use a webview and store cookies in an area shared with Safari (and maybe globally)? The auth token isn't actually part of the app's data.

No, web views don’t share cookies with Safari. Apps have sandboxed cookie storage.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nshttpc...

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