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Cheers mate The track blocker says "attempts" pretty clearly I wasn't trying to mislead
https://ibb.co/DzWMFMy
This seems completely over-the-top when the person is literally trying to have a discussion about something that they have admitted to not knowing much about. "Attempts" is the terminology being used by the DDG app, which explains why OP is using the same wording.
This whole thread has a weird, defensive and "reinforce my purchase" type of vibe. LJDawson has been pretty transparent about this and has worked hard on the app, so I sorta get it, but come on.
"In fact, misleading is putting it lightly."
How about we all calm down before starting to throw personal accusations out there?
Fair enought and thanks for that info.
I was mostly posting to get community feedback and thoughts, so I shared what I came across. Figured people out there would know way more about this the I.
Thank you for spelling it out so clearly. I've seen the screenshot from DDG a few times today but I didn't know how the underlying mechanics of it worked. Now I even notice at the top it says "known to collect:".
It's still misleading. It doesn't say what information was attempted to be gathered those 28 times. It may very well have been 28 attempts to collect the same exact "Device orientation" over and over again (and it most likely is something simple like that).
Correct! I just updated title and added this info to the top of my post.
It's still not a listing of sync attempts only what google analytics is known to collect. If you bothered to count the items you'd have notice it's 33 items listed yet only 28 attempts were made.
It's pretty trivial to see that list is impossible for sync since it does not even have location permissions
Are you able to see what domains were blocked? Other posters have suggested that these attempts are blocked by DNS. If we could see the domains that were queried, we could have a better understanding of whatβs being attempted here.
My speculation would be that we would see google owned domains, but I donβt know