I was aware that phone apps hoover up private data but I had no concept of the scope of it until I enabled the DuckDuckGo App Tracking Protection.

*I find the free version of the AccuWeather app to be quite good. I wouldn’t run it or recommend it without tracking protection though. Holy cow.

#DuckDuckGo #Privacy #DataPrivacy #PhonePrivacy #Android #AccuWeather

  • JBar2@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Yep it’s ridiculous. Accuweather is pretty bad, but Duckduckgo blocked 3342 tracking attempts on my phone yesterday, all from Google