In the few short hours since I started using #Threads, #DuckDuckGo has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like “headphone status” and “screen density.”

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    I’d guess that rotation is probably to rotate the video player when you rotate your phone.

    Accelerometer is likely for the feature where you can shake the phone to report a bug.

    Headphone status may be to pause videos when you unplug your headphones? Unsure.

    • @6mementomori
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      -31 year ago

      if i understand correctly this isn’t just grabbing info for functionality but rather is info being permanently collected and stored, so this shouldnt be it otherwsie there would be no need to keep it

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        How would DuckDuckGo know the difference between grabbing the info temporarily vs permanently? The app would still be calling the same APIs.