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		andreasley on March 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client The Advertising Identifier is app-specific, and if Limit Ad Tracking is enabled, it is set to all zeros. So it's not accurate to say that it's "your deanonimized identity".

monocularvision on March 28, 2020 [–]

You are correct that users can disable it but incorrect to say it is app specific:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/adsupport/asidenti...

You are thinking of “identifierForVendor”:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uidevice/162...

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