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How are you viewing tracking attempts, is it an app?
Hello, yes duckduckgo has an app that turned on a blocker to try to strip and block tracking attempts. I keep it running and it seems to catch alot.
What raised my eyebrow was it started alerting on a lot of new tracking attempts for Sync. I mean alot of android apps do the same thing this isn't just for Sync so it's not doing anything unique there. It was also the laundry list of info points that seemed off.
Figured I would post and see if anyone else has seen the same.
I plan on buying the app, I assume those attempts will go away without the ads.
The DDG app is misleading with Lemmy apps, because it will also trigger off of trackers from links you click on. So if you open a news article posted on Lemmy, and that article has trackers, then DDG can't tell the difference and thinks your Lemmy client is the one running the trackers.
Edit: also:
This is correct, the developer says that the ad framework will not initialize if you have a license to the app.
Good to know thank you. :)
To be fair I had just opened sync, played around with how it looked and scrolled a bit when I noticed this.
I don't recall clicking many links, but I could have certainly. Who knows just by looking at thumbnails soemthing could have been passed through?