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For questions related to privacy (user permissions / security techniques, internet tracking system such as Cookies, Web bugs etc.)

For questions related to privacy (user permissions / security techniques, internet tracking system such as Cookies, Web bugs etc.)

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A privacy app ineffectually tries to block tracking data for our web analytics. Should we detect the failed attempt and not track their users?

My company has a web analytics package which we use for our own and customer marketing campaign tracking. It uses a combination of server logs, JS & image web bugs, cookies, unique cached files, and ETag headers to collect and collate user…
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App Rejected on 17.2 clause. Asking for email ID

My app is a sync solution (imagine dropbox). The user needs to sign in to access the app's features, and if he does not have any account already created, he can sign up. The sign up asks for email id verification, and this email id is also used if…
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What is following header for: X-Chrome-Variations?

I was looking at http requests sent by chrome in Fiddler, and I noticed following http header which puzzles me: X-Chrome-Variations: CNa1yQEIjrbJAQiYtskBCKK2yQEIp7bJAQiptskBCLmDygE= This is a base64 encoded 35-byte…
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__CRASHING_DUE_TO_PRIVACY_VIOLATION__

In Crashlytics, I can see iOS 10 users are getting this crash frequently. However, when I test in Simulator using iPhone 7/10.2, I'm unable to reproduce the crash. In my plist, I already have strings for NSCalendarsUsageDescription,…
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How can I programmatically enable Guided Access (Kiosk mode) on an iPhone?

Question How do I automate Guided Access mode on an iPhone? I will need to automate the enabling and removal of this feature Background This application from the State of Iowa uses an iOS app to display your drivers license. The issue is that…
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Can Google track me if I use Google Web Fonts?

By using Google Web Fonts can/does Google process the text of the webpage (despite disallowed by robots.txt) track the visitors of the webpage, and (theoretically) recognize them track the changes made to the webpage (despite robots.txt) Except…
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How can I get a user's country location?

Due to GDPR, I am requiring to check the user's location - whether the user is from the European Union. Till now I have found these solutions - Get Country using the Phone's language configuration (can misguide if the user uses English US version…
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How to detect if a user is using tracking protection in Firefox 42+

Firefox has launched a feature called Tracking protection in v42.0. It blocks several tracking scripts such as Google Analytics, Marketo, LinkedIn, etc. I was trying to detect it through navigator.DoNotTrack, but it returns unspecified in both…
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How to resolve Error with Permissions-Policy header: Origin trial controlled feature not enabled: 'browsing-topics'?

Just in the past couple days I have started getting console errors in chrome on my website that I'm developing on my local machine. The error is "Error with Permissions-Policy header: Origin trial controlled feature not enabled:…
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How to start vim in "private mode"

Modern browsers have a feature called "private mode" or "incognito mode". I am trying to do the same thing with vim, i.e. run it in way that no traces of my activities are left behind. This way I would be able to e.g. use vim to open a file…
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What data is collected by Google Analytics (by default)

I try to identify what data is actually collected by the default script of Google Analytics. What seems to be an easy question turns out to have no clear answer. I know that they (for example) collect the IP-address, screen resolution, operating…
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TCC __TCCAccessRequest_block_invoke

I'm getting this error frequently in Crashlytics. TCC __TCCAccessRequest_block_invoke_2.80 + 222 TCC __CRASHING_DUE_TO_PRIVACY_VIOLATION__ + 682 In my app i'm downloading images and stored that images in photo gallery directly, i'm not creating…
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why browsers allow setting cookie on the parent (cross) domain of an iframe?

Why can a site (a.com) having an iframe to another domain (b.com) have its cookie viewed and changed by that other domain document? Just saw this happening in an Ad, and went to do a proof of concept, and it worked... here's what i did: first,…
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Is Gradle build scan secure?

I think Gradle Build Scan is a nice feature. It would be super effective to cooperate with team on debugging a Gradle configuration by looking at a project build scan. But I'm not sure if I may publish scans of a private project. Does Gradle…
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Crash on iOS > TCCAccessRequest_block_invoke_2.8

I've got an error in my app (iOS 8 to iOS 11) : Crashed: com.apple.root.default-qos 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x1839a00a8 __abort_with_payload + 8 1 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x18399b100 abort_with_payload_wrapper_internal + 100 2 …
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