Is the local networks privacy impacting 127.0.0.1 ?

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Created Jun ’20

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iOS 14 introduces better privacy protections for communicating to local networks: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10110/

I was wondering if 127.0.0.1 was considered "local network" or not. As it is arguably a special case: it's using a local socket, but it's not quite another device.

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Loopback addresses (127.0.0.1 and ::1) are exceptions to the local network restrictions, as they do not allow traffic to leave the device. Use of multicast and broadcast addresses, as well as unicast to addresses on the local network's subnet are restricted.

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Loopback addresses (127.0.0.1 and ::1) are exceptions to the local network restrictions, as they do not allow traffic to leave the device. Use of multicast and broadcast addresses, as well as unicast to addresses on the local network's subnet are restricted.

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