> Apple is basically loopholing all the shitty ad-tech engagement surveillance bs that plagues the rest of the industry
That's a pretty extreme description of what's happening here. I agree that they should not be doing this, and that App Store analytics should be opt-in like the rest of the device analytics, however, they are not correlating your unique identifier with other web properties — i.e. when you visit through Safari. I also doubt they are selling that data to third parties, allowing ads to target you on the basis of it, or using it to build a profile against other application analytics.
In fact, it seems like the article says: they do no clever stuff with it whatsoever. They should remove it in a future update
That's a pretty extreme description of what's happening here. I agree that they should not be doing this, and that App Store analytics should be opt-in like the rest of the device analytics, however, they are not correlating your unique identifier with other web properties — i.e. when you visit through Safari. I also doubt they are selling that data to third parties, allowing ads to target you on the basis of it, or using it to build a profile against other application analytics.
In fact, it seems like the article says: they do no clever stuff with it whatsoever. They should remove it in a future update