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Another strange one is "Browsing History: Information about content the user has viewed that is not part of the app, such as websites"

Apple requires apps to have a web site for customer support. Almost every web server logs anonymous data about visited pages. So, almost every apps need to have "Browsing History" checked??

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Only if you are ingesting those logs, correlating them with users and storing that data somewhere.

Apple seems to want to show privacy labels even for anonymized data which isn't linked to the user. Here's their App Store app showing category "Data Not Linked to You": https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211971

That page appears to not show what the data is used for. I wonder if it's shown elsewhere, or why apple asks for that if they don't show it anywhere. As a user, that's certainly information I'd be interested in.

(Documentation lists the following purposes: Third-Party Advertising, Developer’s Advertising or Marketing, Analytics, Product Personalization, App Functionality, Other Purposes)

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