iOS and Android provide these statistics to app developers. Anonymized stats on installs and account statuses are totally fair telemetry imo.
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MissingGhost@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Is nobody else concerned that “they” know when software is installed or uninstalled?
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 3 weeks ago
Jyek@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
No? Why wouldn’t they know? Lots of ways to track that data. Google and apple both keep that data for statistics and app popularity tracking.
Ach@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I love that this guy thinks the multiple billion dollar companies that make his smart phone exist that we know are selling our data thinks those same comapanies aren’t watching everything we do.
That’s right buddy. Amidst all these articles about data mining, nobody is watching what you do on your phone.
Dude, you think they don’t know when you uninstall an app? Bill Gates has audio of you jerking off and can name time website and time and date he got the audio.