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What surprises me is that this is technically possible on iOS.

It’s an abuse of a feature, in a way. There are certainly non-evil use cases for the feature being used here.

But as we know, that which can be used by advertising/tracking people will be used by them.

People only care when "bad guys" do it

That's because only "bad guys" do this. If a "good buy" does this, they automatically become a "bad guy".

I think madrox is referring to 'good guys' as in Western countries vs China etc, not literal good guys and bad guys. That's a fairly common view, regardless of all the actual bad Western country leaderships' conduct.

I think I agree with you here. It's proof by definition.