Timeline for Precisely what does "Allow app to track your activity across other companies' apps and websites" mean?
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| Aug 28, 2021 at 3:03 | answer | added | anonymousaga | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 20:38 | comment | added | WGroleau | @nohillside: The 'other question' already exists: apple.stackexchange.com/questions/423956/… | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 18:35 | comment | added | nohillside♦ | @WGroleau Might be worth its own question, actually (make sure to include a screenshots of some cookies including their domain if you do). This one here is about ATT, I'll add an answer later. | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 16:22 | comment | added | WGroleau | I frequently delete them. But it's a proctalgia to have to do one at a time, several clicks each. Tracking or not, it irritates me to see NSA's biggest competitor more than a dozen times in the list. (No, I do NOT use Google for web searches.) | |
| Aug 6, 2021 at 15:29 | comment | added | nohillside♦ | @WGroleau Maybe these third-party cookies in Safari are old/got created before Apple allowed to block cross-site tracking? Or they are not considered harmful by Apple? | |
| Aug 2, 2021 at 16:45 | comment | added | WGroleau | @nohillside, sounds like you have the knowledge to write the answer. If you do, you might include a mention of “third-party cookies.” I’ve been told Safari never allows them, but my local storage contains a huge quantity of domain names that I have NEVER visited. | |
| Aug 2, 2021 at 16:09 | history | reopened |
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| Aug 1, 2021 at 12:12 | comment | added | nohillside♦ | Tracking is done with tracking links/pixels basically, so if you allow apps A and B to track you and also use any browser to access a website which uses the same tracking as A and B then you can be tracked across A, B and the website by the tracking provider. | |
| Jul 31, 2021 at 21:01 | comment | added | Ezekiel | It is true that Safari could play a roll here - but it does not. Safari is unrelated to this prompt. Clicking Allow doesn't change the privacy settings of your phone, otherwise it would indicate that. Any "other company" would have it in their terms of agreement that they might share your data. | |
| Jul 31, 2021 at 20:59 | comment | added | Ezekiel | The reason you're misunderstanding this is that you're interpreting allow to be granting additional access. This is not the case. Clicking Allow grants the previous status-quo level of access. Not clicking allow is the new option. | |
| Jul 31, 2021 at 17:45 | comment | added | stevec | @nohillside hmmm the prompt literally says "across other companies' apps and websites". Since safari is another company's app, that indicates that safari activity could indeed be tracked. | |
| Jul 31, 2021 at 17:40 | comment | added | nohillside♦ | The screenshot you‘ve included is from DoorDash, this is about tracking within that app. Safari doesn’t play a role here. | |
| Jul 31, 2021 at 17:01 | comment | added | user3439894 | I'd assume everything is being tracked, because it probably is regardless of what anything/anyone says! 🤪 BBIW | |
| Jul 31, 2021 at 16:56 | history | edited | stevec | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 31, 2021 at 16:31 | comment | added | stevec | @nohillside updated | |
| Jul 31, 2021 at 16:31 | history | edited | stevec | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 31, 2021 at 16:22 | comment | added | nohillside♦ | There is a lot of documentation about this on Apple‘s and other websites, have you done some research there? What have you found and what remains unclear? | |
| Jul 31, 2021 at 16:21 | history | closed | nohillside♦ | Not suitable for this site | |
| Jul 31, 2021 at 16:03 | history | asked | stevec | CC BY-SA 4.0 |