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0 pointssneak4mo ago0 comments

> While this has left a long tail of inconveniences, many resolved and some not, I am very confident that using 1 app on my iPhone/iPad will not leak data to another in any case that I am likely to care about as a non-significantly interesting person (political figure, etc).

Google knows that both accounts are owned by the same person, because Apple lets Google's apps access the data of the others on the same system.

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criddell4mo ago

I don't think it's something special that Google is doing. I suspect they are just using the built-in App Groups functionality.

Basically, it's a way for different apps from the same developer to share information via a data container.

sneakOP4mo ago

Correct. Apple is leaking the data between apps for them.

criddell4mo ago

I wouldn’t call it leaking when it’s done by design and is something any developer of multiple apps can do.

For example I wouldn’t say Linux is leaking data every time an application uses fopen.

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0 pointssneak4mo ago0 comments

Google knows that both accounts are owned by the same person, because Apple lets Google's apps access the data of the others on the same system.

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criddell4mo ago

I don't think it's something special that Google is doing. I suspect they are just using the built-in App Groups functionality.

Basically, it's a way for different apps from the same developer to share information via a data container.

sneakOP4mo ago

Correct. Apple is leaking the data between apps for them.

criddell4mo ago

I wouldn’t call it leaking when it’s done by design and is something any developer of multiple apps can do.

For example I wouldn’t say Linux is leaking data every time an application uses fopen.

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