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Tracking how users use your own app is hardly malicious, in fact it's entirely in an effort to identify user frustration and solve it or otherwise improve the product. Tracking across different apps is definitely malicious, though.
We use LogRocket to record all interactions with our front-ends and it's awesome for trouble shooting and also invaluable for our product managers. They can see where users are struggling with the app and where extra-guidance is necessary. I'm assuming many many many other apps and web pages are doing the same thing. Nothing to see here.
That you find it useful doesn't make it not an invasion of privacy.
I really don't get the outrage about that, it's something that has existed for 15 or 20 years at least and is used a lot on most websites you go on.
What private information do you think is sent to the vendor that would not be otherwise?
I don't understand people still hanging on to the fiction that Apple is some sort of bastion of privacy. Do they know that google pays Apple "an estimated $8-12 billion"[0] to be default search and as a result track almost all iPhone users' searches? If that's not "selling your data" I don't know what is. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/technology/apple-google-s...
This is like complaining that your soundproof apartment isn't giving you the right level of privacy because when you stand on a soapbox in the town square and shout "I wear pink underwear" everyone knows what color your underwear are. If you want privacy, why not, you know, use the privacy features? (Like chat messages, which are NOT sent to Google).
I believe Amazon, Airbnb, airlines and many others are doing / were doing same on their web pages too. It allow to provide better personalized (TM) experience and significantly increase ROI. There is good book how it works in offline world. https://www.npr.org/2017/02/13/514322899/aisles-have-eyes-wa...
Just don't read it on a Kindle, another device which monitors everything you do (how long you remain on a page etc).
Every webapp with typeahead functionality does it. How is this any different?
I don't understand people still hanging on to the fiction that Apple is some sort of bastion of privacy. Do they know that google pays Apple "an estimated $8-12 billion"[0] to be default search and as a result track almost all iPhone users' searches? If that's not "selling your data" I don't know what is. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/technology/apple-google-s...
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Tracking how users use your own app is hardly malicious, in fact it's entirely in an effort to identify user frustration and solve it or otherwise improve the product. Tracking across different apps is definitely malicious, though.
You can justify a lot of crazy behavior with "we need it to improve our product", that doesn't make it inherently ethical though.
Every webapp with typeahead functionality does it. How is this any different?
Apple is supposed to be good for privacy.
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Also Apple doesn’t have any incentive to ‘fingerprint’ App Store users because they are either logged in or using a unique identifier.
Sure they do. What if they switch accounts, usernames, phones, etc. More data is better.