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.

        • utopianrevolt@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6117·
          1 year ago

          This seems completely over-the-top when the person is literally trying to have a discussion about something that they have admitted to not knowing much about. “Attempts” is the terminology being used by the DDG app, which explains why OP is using the same wording.

          This whole thread has a weird, defensive and “reinforce my purchase” type of vibe. LJDawson has been pretty transparent about this and has worked hard on the app, so I sorta get it, but come on.

          “In fact, misleading is putting it lightly.”

          How about we all calm down before starting to throw personal accusations out there?

        • Ithronmorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
          141·
          1 year ago

          Thank you for spelling it out so clearly. I’ve seen the screenshot from DDG a few times today but I didn’t know how the underlying mechanics of it worked. Now I even notice at the top it says “known to collect:”.

          • kadu@lemmy.worldEnglish
            75·
            1 year ago

            Yep! And please keep in mind I’m not saying the app is bad. I personally use a different, but similar in functionality, DNS blocker.

            Their wording though… it’s definitely designed to scare users a bit.

        • Kertain@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          145·
          1 year ago

          Fair enought and thanks for that info.

          I was mostly posting to get community feedback and thoughts, so I shared what I came across. Figured people out there would know way more about this the I.

      • morrowind@lemmy.mlEnglish
        131·
        1 year ago

        It’s pretty trivial to see that list is impossible for sync since it does not even have location permissions

      • RobMyBot@lemmy.mlEnglish
        122·
        1 year ago

        It’s still misleading. It doesn’t say what information was attempted to be gathered those 28 times. It may very well have been 28 attempts to collect the same exact “Device orientation” over and over again (and it most likely is something simple like that).

        • Kertain@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          45·
          1 year ago

          Correct! I just updated title and added this info to the top of my post.

          • Zpiritual@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            It’s still not a listing of sync attempts only what google analytics is known to collect. If you bothered to count the items you’d have noticed It’s 33 items list yet only 28 attempts were made.

      • gt5@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Are you able to see what domains were blocked? Other posters have suggested that these attempts are blocked by DNS. If we could see the domains that were queried, we could have a better understanding of what’s being attempted here.

        My speculation would be that we would see google owned domains, but I don’t know