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Steam Deck OLED Trailer in c/steam@lemmy.ml

[–] Kertain@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well crap I just got mine.... Should have know that last sale was too good to be true.

My sad little German chocolate birthday cake I bought myself. in c/foodporn@lemmy.world

[–] Kertain@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Happy birthday!

Opinion | What Makes Jack Smith’s New Trump Indictment So Smart in c/politics@lemmy.world

[–] Kertain@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Great article, interesting take. Feels wierd but am gasp optimistic now?!

Duckduckgo App Tracking and listing Sync's "tracking attempts" in c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

[–] Kertain@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Correct! I just updated title and added this info to the top of my post.

Duckduckgo App Tracking and listing Sync's "tracking attempts" in c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

[–] Kertain@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Nope I didn't! But now I do. Thanks friend :)

Updated title and added an edit to the top to state what I think was the salient info discussed.

Duckduckgo App Tracking and listing Sync's "tracking attempts" in c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

[–] Kertain@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I agree if you like the app, support the dev by paying for it. Which after playing around with it more I belive I will be doing.

I do feel bad if DDG blocker is stopping his ads from reporting in, thus stopping his source of income. Definitely not my intention.

Duckduckgo App Tracking and listing Sync's "tracking attempts" in c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

[–] Kertain@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

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.

Duckduckgo App Tracking and listing Sync's "tracking attempts" in c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

[–] Kertain@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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?

Duckduckgo App Tracking and listing Sync's "tracking attempts" in c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

[–] Kertain@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Cheers mate The track blocker says "attempts" pretty clearly I wasn't trying to mislead

https://ibb.co/DzWMFMy

Duckduckgo App Tracking and listing Sync's "tracking attempts" in c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

[–] Kertain@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Says "36 tracking attempts blocked ".. So perhaps poor wording on duckduckgos part?

Duckduckgo App Tracking and listing Sync's "tracking attempts" in c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

[–] Kertain@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

Duckduckgo App Tracking and listing Sync's "tracking attempts" in c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

[–] Kertain@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Hello! Promise no malice intended.

I was just playing around with the app and noticed duckduck go blocking a ton of new tracking attempts.

I can only go by what was stated in the app as "attempts" hence my post.

Someone who understand how duckduckgos tracking blocker work might know better however. Perhaps you are 100% right.

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Duckduckgo App Tracking and listing Sync's "tracking attempts" (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Kertain@lemmy.world to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

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Edit: Below is my original post, will not edit original in an attempt to be transparent as it provides context to those comments. Several good comments outlining what could be going on were posted as well. Seems the list of "know to track" from that service (Google) is very different from what was actually requested by this specific app. 36 attempts so far were made, but DDG does not specify of what type.

Original: So this seems like a pretty intense level of tracking. Certainly much more than any of the other lemmy apps I have tried. I get advertisements, totally fine with them earning money, but it took me by surpise.

If I look at the privacy policy, it certainly does not indicate to me this level of monitoring.

For the record, I am not implying deception on the devs part at all, I am sure things are spelled our correctly in the privacy policy. Just wasn't sure everone was aware of the extent.

Cheers!

Edit: some people are implying I was trying to mislead with my title. For clarity I am using duckduckgo track blocker "App Tracking Protection" and it states "Tracking Attempts" https://ibb.co/DzWMFMy

The list on the original post is what data is being attempted to pull and the protection stopped as far as i can tell.

Edit 2: updated title to be more clear. Wasn't aware I could even do that!