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Can we have some clarification on what "Usage Data" the app collects and shares with advertisers?
(lemmy.world)
What constitutes Usage Data. Is it sharing the posts I view, communities I subscribe to etc?
Does paying for a premium version stop this data being collected?
I got to that exact screen and my excitement went from 100 to like 10. I'm back on Connect, didn't even take Sync out for a spin.
Same for me. Tried disabling personal data for all advertisers but you gotta go one by one, there's no Reject all option and there are way too many... so back to Connect.
I was just pointed towards infinity for Lemmy. It's pretty solid, open source, no ads
Where would one download that?
https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Infinity-For-Lemmy/releases/tag/v0.0.6
I thought that one was correct but just wanted to make sure, thank you!
Same. I saw that line in the privacy policy, and immediately uninstalled
Same..
Same
The exact same for me, and I had just made a new account to use with sync for lemmy - logged in via sync, then read the privacy policy, logged out, and closed the app. I was crushed because now I couldn't even use the cool username I signed up with anywhere else either because now the admachines already knew it and probably already attached it to my device ID.
GA collects very limited information by default. You have to go pretty far out of your way to give Google usernames, posts, etc for ad purposes. It's likely the only thing they received was a device identifier generated specifically for the new install of the app. You're fine.
You most likely can use the account, unless the author is intentionally doing something shady, Google doesn't know your username from this interaction.
Google doesn't know the username of someone logged in? I thought that might be the first piece of data that Google picks up.
They have no way to know it, unless the author of the web or app lets them know.
That makes sense. And if app devs aren't really enthusiastic about having ads trackers, I suppose they'll also want to do the bare minimum for them.
Yeah that's the shitty thing about interacting with these corporate spying services, they're very good at invading your privacy and making connections to break your anonymity.
I've been using DDG for tracking, and Connect had all sorts of weird tracking when I used it. Check it out with some network monitor and make sure it's not sending back your info.
Thanks for the info. Which ones are open source and don't track? Liftoff and Jerboa?
Jerboa seems clean so far! Haven't tried Liftoff much as I didn't like the UI.