Who has access to the Identifier for Vendors (IDFV)

Hello all,

Apple's introduction of the App Tracking Transparency (ATT) framework with iOS 14.5 in April 2021 limited the usage of the identifier for advertisers (IDFA) for identifying users/devices across apps of different developers/publishers/vendors (simply “developers” henceforth). But developers can still use the identifier for vendors (IDFV) to identify users/devices within their apps.

My questions are as follows, and I highly appreciate any help:

  1. How do I know which apps belong to which developer, enabling that developer to use IDFV to identify users/devices within their apps?

  2. Is the developer — listed on an App Store’s webpage — a vendor? Thus, enabling the developer/vendor to identify users/devices within the apps it owns as a vendor? For example, the displayed developers of "Facebook" and "WhatsApp" are different. Does this difference imply these two developers cannot use the IDFV to identify users across "Facebook" (https://apps.apple.com/de/app/facebook/id284882215) and "Whatsapp" (https://apps.apple.com/de/app/whatsapp-messenger/id310633997) (I am aware that they can use other methods to identify users uniquely)?

  3. Do you believe that Apple’s introduction of the ATT led developers to merge with other developers to identify users via IDFV across more apps?

Kind regards

Lennart

Who has access to the Identifier for Vendors (IDFV)
 
 
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