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/

  • @[email protected]
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    3117 hours ago

    You’re being downvoted for providing true information that disputes sensationalism. This place is truly fucking weird

    • CaptainBasculin
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      1917 hours ago

      I get that lemmy userbase in general dislikes ads, i dislike ads too but not every dev can go without it on their projects. There has to be some income from somewhere after all.

      • Sonalder
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        215 hours ago

        You can serve ads to your users without being Big Brother and selling users data to data brokers… Unfortunately it doesn’t seems to generate enough revenue anymore :'(

    • kat
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      -212 hours ago

      Lol, dude got aa much upvotes as u

        • kat
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          411 hours ago

          Goes to show that the first people to vote on stuff don’t represent the community as a whole

          • stebo
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            -19 hours ago

            it probably only changed because Rogue made that comment

            just like on Reddit, there’s a lot of sheeple here that downvote a comment just because it’s already being downvoted