It is about ads in apps and how they track you.
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asunaspersonalasst@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Does turning off wifi, force stopping apps, clearing cache, and using a privacy friendly browser work? I been doing that for years and I don’t see any intrusive/malicious/super specific targeted ads, heck, ads had been minimal and only appear while I use apps.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Zak@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Preferring websites to apps when possible makes this approach more effective. If you use apps with ads in them, they will likely get sensitive information as described in the article.
System wide ad blocking helps more. Private DNS is the easiest way; Mullvad provides a free option.
rimu@piefed.social 2 days ago
No.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
(through ads)
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 days ago
Are you, being purposely misleading?
ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Google play services betrays you.
Use grapheneos.org and it sandboxes Google play for you, but ironically requires a Google Pixel phone.
quokka1@mastodon.au 17 hours ago
@ParetoOptimalDev @asunaspersonalasst That's the thing that put me off. I brain couldn't reconcile the idea of de-Googling by buying something from Google.
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
Took delivery of a Pixel 9 last Thursday after 16 years of iPhones. Within an hour of delivery I had it on Graphene and after a few days of VEEEEERY steep learning curve I’m really enjoying using it.
I have absolutely no idea how any of the sandboxing stuff works, and could stand to have fewer notifications warning me what the system is doing, but overall it’s pretty straightforward.