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!

  • KertainOPEnglish
    8•1 year ago

    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.

    • Chozo
      16•1 year ago

      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:

      I plan on buying the app, I assume those attempts will go away without the ads.

      This is correct, the developer says that the ad framework will not initialize if you have a license to the app.

      • KertainOPEnglish
        4•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?