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.

  • Chozo@kbin.social
    171·
    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.

    • Kertain@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      51·
      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?