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Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see

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Re: Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see

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Seems like in general the iPhone was not designed to avoid fingerprinting from installed apps. Only protection would be avoid installing apps and use the web browser when possible.

These days many things don't work on browser. Even reddit is very difficult as we get constant nagging.

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Re: Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see

#33
Yea, it's infuriating that most of the HN crowd thinks the apps are better then web. Apps can spy on you way more than web. It's the reason every website says "please download the app". If it was better for them to spy on you via the website they wouldn't ask you to download the app.

Re: Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see

#34

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Seems like in general the iPhone was not designed to avoid fingerprinting from installed apps. Only protection would be avoid installing apps and use the web browser when possible.

These days many things don't work on browser. Even reddit is very difficult as we get constant nagging.

That’s usually a warning the service is malware that wants you to install an app for deeper tracking.

Re: Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see

#36
post #8

Damn. The "iPhone last setup or erased on ..." is really nasty. What can a user really do about that? I feel like this should be fudged somehow by the OS.

Seems like in general the iPhone was not designed to avoid fingerprinting from installed apps. Only protection would be avoid installing apps and use the web browser when possible.

Cut your selection of apps and find/build privacy respecting alternatives for the remainder. Im trying to do this. Music is now locally hosted, Youtube is sorta kinda coming along. I've been working on reversing some of my more basic iOS apps to extract the data/endpoints they use and write my own apps. Fable really helped with this and Opus just does not cut the mustard. I hope it comes back. :/

Re: Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see

#37
This is excellent. Seeing this makes me appreciate how much visual awareness tools like this are needed.

I built something similar, for the web. https://neberej.github.io/exposedbydefault/

Github: https://github.com/neberej/exposedbydefault

Re: Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see

#38
post #22

Volume creation date is pretty egregious. I don't see any reason that and Pasteboard changeCount should be so granular. The "Installed Apps Probe" leak also surprised me. It is better than the current state of Android, though.

Pasteboard counter exists to help apps to not ask again about the same item in the buffer. And nothing stops from using reset it every day.

I think something like a per boot delta added to a (per app?) random base would preserve such functionality.

Re: Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see

#39

Apps like TikTok can know which username we logged in with, even if we uninstall and reinstall the app. This is egregious, as many companies like Facebook have SDKs embedded in many apps, allowing them to accurately interconnect user activity. Apple should be ashamed that they aren't putting effort to randomize these fingerprints....

This is probably Keychain, right?

Re: Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see

#40

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These days many things don't work on browser. Even reddit is very difficult as we get constant nagging.

old.reddit.com

For now but you know they’re coming for that ass.
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