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How do you get from "it's possible to correlate somebody's application usage times and IP geolocation" to "fingerprinting is impossible to avoid"?

IP tracking is somewhat avoidable using things like Tor and iCloud Private Relay (not so much most VPNs, though), and even if it isn't, I'd still much rather be in an anonymity set the size of a densely populated ZIP code than one of size one.

> every major mobile OS that just hands app developers a tracking ID for every user.

Which ID does iOS hand to developers? I was under the impression this hasn't been a thing anymore for several OS versions now.



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