Well, the good news is now you don’t have to delete it. Just deny the app access to track you.
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App Privacy Study Looks at Most 'Invasive' Apps Collecting User Data
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From the way I had it enthusiastically explained to me, by someone trying to sell my company marketing services, they have access to anything from any company that participates in their marketing network. Meaning a company that has information about your search history on their site shares that with another company with search history on that site. Add a bunch of these companies together into a "marketing network" and you have ALL information about you being aggregated. Of course it is "anonymous" because they use an ID number instead of your name <rolls eyes>
Unless you're in Russia, of course.
On a positive note, I'm glad to see my Tinder app is only harvesting 21% of my data. 😲
RobinHood should be #1 for telling others about your trades before they execute. But I know that's not how this is measured.
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I'm not a privacy-focused individual, but for society as a whole, consider what advertising does. It's nearly a zero sum game. Advertisers compete against each other for the public's limited interest. Businesses probably pay trillions per year to advertise. That's an enormous value sink.I too would really like to know the problem with the data sharing? Anyone here in the "real" know as to why, rather than just paranoid wokers.
As someone said before if it is just for Adverts I'm all for it. I'd rather see adverts I am interested in.
Are there other nefarious reasons I should be aware of? Examples?
People usually complain about FB. But that somehow didn't start until they did something that helped Trump as a presidential candidate.
I still use an ad-blocker that also simulates clicks on every ad just to piss Google off.
I guess Apple needs a VP of handholding for those mythical 98%. One has to really work at ignoring all the media about privacy these days, and ways to push back. Or more likely they just don't care, and that's on them to choose.
The fact that apps trawl our mobile devices for information, whilst appalling, isn’t at all surprising or something I wasn’t aware of anyway. Personally I use as few apps as possible, preferring to go through Safari with a tracker blocker. Of course I’ve no way of knowing how much safer this is though.
Ad Nauseam. It's a fork of uBlock Origin, which is probably the best normal ad-blocker.
The worst part about a lot of these is that when someone has YOUR details in their contacts and they use these Apps, that data is uploaded & 'shared' among other companies. We probably all have dormant ghost accounts on these platforms even if we never use them.
It gets worse when they have access to photos, faces, etc.
It gets worse when they have access to photos, faces, etc.
eBay don't use Paypal for payment processing anymore, they've got their own backend supplied by Adyen.
Google has an search engine that runs in iOS,on your phone?
I would say “yes”, because the normal flow of information across the internet is not affect by $$$.
Switching from Google search to DuckDuckGo simply transfers the tracking from the search engine to the site that you visit as a result of a search. Every website tracks their visitors. Sometimes they do it directly on the server itself, but often it is by the use of "tracking pixels" (a 1 pixel image embedded on a page that is hosted on a server for the sole purpose of tracking who is requesting the image when that page is loaded).
The information gathered is fed to Google, Facebook, and others. If a person is online, their behavior is being tracked and aggregated. I'll leave the issue of using a VPN for another time.
You have a citation for that 98%.? Didn’t think so. There is no hidden opt-out.
When people want to search the Internet 98% type in “google.com” in the safari browser.
It’s the only social media a lot of my friends use, especially over seas. If I want to keep in contact with them Instagram and WhatsApp are the exclusive ways they communicate, and deleting those apps means cutting contact with them entirely.