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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!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Known to collect" is going to be vastly different from what's actually being collected. It's more realistically just serving ads, getting some crash/error reporting. But because it's all under Google, it's going to show up as Google. DDG/other blockers won't know the difference.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are those exactly what it’s tracking or what it’s “known” to track?

Former? Bad

Latter? This post is misrepresenting at best and downright malicious at worst.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Each of those is for a valid feature of the app, and you can disable those you don't like.

This entire post is a thinly veiled scare tactic. "well I'm not saying it's a problem, but look what they're doing!! I'm just asking questions here" kind of bullshit

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Seems more like you're projecting a reality that isn't the case. Moreso projecting a weird defensive attitude over a social media application when people are, understandably, concerned about their data privacy. I think we should keep this type of attitude over on the Reddit side.