YSK: Lemmy browsing app Boost is tracking your data for profiling and more! Consider using other trackingless Lemmy apps such as Jerboa or Voyager
YSK: Lemmy browsing app Boost is tracking your data for profiling and more! Consider using other trackingless Lemmy apps such as Jerboa or Voyager
According to the tracking scanner Exodus (can be found on F-Droid), which keeps an updated database on trackers and runs your installed app against its register, you can track what apps are tracking you and clues of how. Saw that Boost is tracking me and uninstalled it and went straight to Jerboa. Jerboa is pretty similar to good ole' RedditIsFun-app and easy to use, so I am personally recommending it.
From F-Droid:
Exodus (Exodus show you trackers and permissions in apps installed on your device.) https://f-droid.org/packages/org.eu.exodus_privacy.exodusprivacy/
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Thanks. Just uninstalled it.
good now delete every other app on your phone that contains Google ads
But that's one less app and there are great alternatives, so why continue using one that tracks you?
I have bought the premium version because it was really cheap so no it doesn't track me
Use this app to make sure. It installs a local VPN to check connections, needs no root.
You do you, most goes with what's free and there are plenty of good free options available.
Ads are a bad way of funding the development, especially for Lemmy, a place where a lot of people are increasingly privacy-minded.
Ads are a bad way of funding the development, especially for Lemmy
couldn't agree more! that's why I bought the premium version
sure, hope you enjoy your free apps while they last
Because it doesn't?
It does. Check the official privacy policy, 9 mentions of trackers as well as the extremely limited options for opting out of the trackers.
Big 'yet you live in society. Curious" vibes.
i just thought it's a bit useless to delete an app "because it has Google trackers" and then keep using 23 other apps that have Google trackers
Difficult for Android users.
that's the point