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Chief Executive Officer @ Guardian (https://guardianapp.com).
previously: founder of "Chronic Dev Team" & worked on many years of iOS jailbreaking solutions (24kPwn, absinthe, corona, greenpois0n, etc).
You are correct about pre-T1 Intel Macs though. Apple will have a blind spot by design, until support is dropped for old machines.
Not so crazy.
Local news, weather, and similar apps with a reasonable rationale for Location Services access are often the culprits.
They will put phrases like “See privacy policy.” in the justification text (When asking permission) so they can claim that the user consented.
And they have continued, off-and-on, to use other location-collecting SDKs.
2. The IDFA is just a simple static UUID. It cannot do a very good job at preventing fraud. There is no way to validate anything about it or affirm that it ties to a genuine device.
My understanding is that they are going to simply show a consent dialog before allowing an app to access the IDFA, similar to what they have done for years to access other sensitive data like Contacts, Location, etc.
It has not happened though. Only app which has been in the App Store and utilized private entitlements, from what I’ve seen anyway, has been Uber.
The backstory is also incredibly interesting: https://projectsandcastle.org/history
The $1/day / $10/month / $100/year has been fairly well received, but may not be for everyone, especially those who enjoy running their own VPN server and/or curating their own block lists.
Not quite. The optional "modifications" are pretty much the small byte patches in the kernel and bootloader which are normally done in a jailbreak. It is similar to how "Parallels Tools" is automatically loaded; Not entirely required, but makes the experience better.