https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=_n_SpEWtqog
Here’s the app for people want to look at it. Hopefully Apple doesn’t remove it from the App Store!
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Browser fingerprinting and app permissions are just really far behind the fingerprinting industry. Cookies are old news, browser fingerprinting is distrubingly effective at correlating anonymous users on normal browsers.
Tor and Mullvad browser are likely the most and only effective privacy browsers at preventing commercial fingerprinting but they sacrifice usability and security. And I’m not even sure of their efficacy. Perhaps there’s research on the topic.
While content blockers likely don’t harm your privacy besides increasing attack surface, they are certainly completely ineffective at cross-site tracking because of fingerprinting.
This is why LibRedirect or perhaps a MV3 version should be recommended more. It takes you off these websites automatically blocking any connection from the redirectee site.
It’s a shame that browsers like Brave and Vanadium don’t meaningfully improve on fingerprinting protection. They’re essentially telemetry - less Chrome. I do highly respect Brave’s rust shields implementation for web enjoyment, however.
I’d like to see a privacy focused anti detect browser like Donut browser with effective profiles. Donut browser is pretty cool because you can assign a proxy or VPN config per profile and the profiles aren’t detected as privacy hardened browsers, so you can easily sign up for things while seperating identities. I think Donut Browser is just like a launcher for different anti-detect browser profiles, so the app is open source but the browsers it launches aren’t. Could definitely be wrong on this.
Feel free to talk more on topic below me 
, this app is fascinating!
PS Apple could massively improve privacy protections by simply banning apps from collecting this data and not allowing location tracking for apps that sell data. Apple has huge power with the App store, so I respect when they make good decisions like the tracking function, but they could do a shit ton more.
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Badness Enumeration is what im getting at.
Its the enumerating badness argument. The best way to not get tracked by apps is to not use apps with trackers.
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It uses public iOS APIs, so it is limited by trusting what Apple shows the application to begin with, and ignores other APIs that may be exfiltrating data, especially the privileged system paths Apple themselves uses.