Another detail that almost no software has a legitimate need-to-know(beyond what API level to target); but I’d certainly be the last to argue that Android would do much to make fingerprinting a phone in considerable detail even vaguely challenging(and while iOS may be slightly better in terms of telling applications to shove off, the total number of distinct models is so low that fingerprinting is going to be trivial); that just strikes me as a real vice given how…enthusiastic…contemporary software is about getting to know you better and send the dossier back to HQ.
I’m not expecting any improvement(all kinds of cool fingerprinting attacks have been demonstrated even for situations where the targeted software and/or hardware were actually intended to be resistant to fingerprinting; and it’s not as though one of the world’s more influential advertising companies or its telco buddies, even want Android to be hostile to fingerprinting attempts); just futilely registering my dissatisfaction with the current state of mobile OS permissions.
