If it were UBlock Origin doing this, sites could just say "Sorry, we don't support this, your addin is breaking everything, please turn it off."
But when Apple does something, there's no room for conversation. Sites can't say "Sorry, we don't work on iPhones." For better or worse, what Apple decides becomes acceptable. In this case for better.
Maybe some services will accept it, but others will not. When I tried to sign in to Microsoft Teams from Safari yesterday it presented a screen that said that Teams will only load on Safari if I disable tracking prevention for the Teams site. So unless users put additional pressures on services to offer support for Apple those services may just force users to accept tracking one way or another: either by disabling Safari's mitigations or using an alternative client that does not use such mitigations.
Your choices are 1) download the native application (with much more access to your system) 2) follow the instructions 3) open Chrome because realistically you probably already have it anyway or 4) lose your job to prove a point.
e.g. Your Facebook page url appears to be facebookdotcom/1234 for me when I click it from the home page, facebookdotcom/5678 when I click it from a thumbnail and facebookdotcom/0987 when someone else clicks it
Absolutely. There was no shortage of Windows-centric corporate IT departments that swore that they'd never support Apple products.
Then iPhones started showing up in boardrooms, and they quickly changed their tune.
I brought my iPhone to work shortly after launch and showed it to curious coworkers. The head of IT for that particular multinational corp said it was garbage and would never be allowed on his network. "Apple is crapple" was his favorite phrase.
A few months later he got to peddle his anti-Apple mantra on the unemployment line.
If he wants a job where fanboy-ism can be helpful in climbing the ladder, he should try politics or something like that. Where all the money on the line belongs to other people. So no one really works to protect any of it.
In my experience it’s also extremely one sided. I work with Windows, Android and Apple colleagues and the amount of times I hear “Xcode is crap haha”, “How can they live with such a shitty OS” etc. makes me wonder if all this is rooted in deep insecurity or something? Some Windows-centric people in senior management places I have worked will use me taking my iPhone out of my pocket as an opportunity to criticise the platform, my choice, and so on
I’m sure that some Apple users are quick to do the same, but in my experience they just tend to get on with their lives
I'm sure somebody will figure out a way to use multiple seemingly-legitimate parameters to get the same result. Why use ?click_id=aqNERjsdfyqe when you can use ?category=10612550&subcategory=5929127&page=4257344 and transfer the same data without arousing suspicion?