Also, that just linking the SDK in your app deanonimzes the user to Facebook is very, very clear in its documentation. It's not like Zoom didn't notice until someone told them. They made a decision, and now they're changing it because they were called out.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/adsupport/asidenti...
You are thinking of “identifierForVendor”:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uidevice/162...
Do you really think they prepared a PR statement to respond to harsh criticism and just decided to toss in there the list of information sent without crafting the order of the items?
Yes, because it's in alphabetical order.
You don't have to craft anything for it to be in alphabetical order.
You just put it in alphabetical order.
The sorts of people who are going to read that list and understand any of it are the sorts of people for whom the order doesn't matter one iota — they will see the information.
For the majority of people, putting it at the top of the list would, equally, not matter one iota — they won't know what it means.
And you can still set your preferred order by naming and wording. Had they dropped "iOS" from everything, "Advertiser ID" would be at the top. I don't think they would've lost a lot of clarity with e.g. "Device Disk Space Available" instead of "iOS Device Disk Space Available". Or, if prefixes are their thing, why not call it "Zoom Application Bundle Identifier"?
Alphabetical order means nothing if you control the strings that are used for sorting.
> You don't have to craft anything for it to be in alphabetical order.
> You just put it in alphabetical order.
Again, if you get to choose the names, you get to choose the order.
Seriously, what is more likely, someone decided to nefariously re-order the list, possibly while laughing maniacally, or the list was just pulled and presented in alphabetical order?
HN commenters are just determined to turn everyone in to evil not-so-geniuses, refusing to recognise that almost everyone involved in this at Zoom are just like everyone else on HN.
They found a thing that did what they needed, an official SDK no less, and used it. They found out (in zoom's case via public crucifixion) that it was doing something nefarious they didn't like, and stopped using it.
But no, if HN is to be believed, they were collaborating with Facebook in some evil diabolical plan to take over the world via advertising.