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    1. This is great! But also: if you are ever short on story ideas hooking up your phone to Charles Proxy and seeing what shitty app is running shitty tracking on you is an infinite source of journalistic opportunities. wsj.com/articles/iphone-privacy-is-brokenand-apps-are-to-blame-11559316401?mod=djemptech_t
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  1. …in reply to @Chronotope
    Also, while we're here, a note on some weird iPhone shit: iPhone web views will continue to run on recently used apps unless you explicitly close them. Apple, presumably, does this for performance, so switching back won't require a cold-start...
    1. …in reply to @Chronotope
      But I think there's a good argument for the methodology to change. It's one thing to keep the web views open, another to allow them to continue to make network requests while the view is open in background. If Apple wants to continue to be strong on privacy it should talk to this
      1. …in reply to @Chronotope
        It's hard to separate network requests needed for updates and those originating from open web views, perhaps? But even so, it is worth discussing this further.


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