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tourist@lemmy.world 8 months agoThank you for that site. Very useful.
I haven’t seen that feature on the aurora store, but I probably just missed it.
I expect free apps to have tracking, but if it’s something like an app launcher that needs so many permissions and is running all the time… That’s just horrific
Ilandar@aussie.zone 8 months ago
It’s towards the bottom of the page for whatever app you’re viewing. Sometimes it won’t have a privacy report available by default, but you can always go through to the website and generate one yourself. One of the worst apps I’ve found so far is the Woolworths one (Australian supermarket). It contains 11 trackers and within the first 6 hours following installation my tracker blocker had already prevented 11,325 tracking attempts.
Dave@lemmy.nz 8 months ago
As someone who likewise freaked out when I got a pohole setup and 30% or more of requests were blocked, the early days are normally just the sane requests endlessly retrying. So while it blocked 11k, if they weren’t blocked it would probably only be a few hundred. Probably poor programming not covering the fact it can be blocked.
Still better to block, though.
Ilandar@aussie.zone 8 months ago
In a way I think that makes it more scary though, at least in a figurative sense. It’s like a group of debt collectors constantly banging on your door to get in and you have your foot there and are telling them to go away but they won’t listen. If you take it away for a second, they knock it down and come charging in to take what they believe they are owed.
Dave@lemmy.nz 8 months ago
Yeah, that’s pretty much it 😐