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The Zuck suck is in full swing. (social.fossware.space)

In the few short hours since I started using #Threads, #DuckDuckGo has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like "headphone status" and "screen density."

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[-] Tag365@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

But it seems like DuckDuckGo is blocking them, which implies the system that's tracking that is trying to upload that data onto a server, not just using it for pausing videos and stuff.

[-] mrnomoniker@lemmy.studio 5 points 1 year ago

Right, it wouldn’t need to communicate to corporate, just to the app itself.

[-] MobiusNone@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

You both are probably right I forgot this was the android app. Meta has a habit of sending everything they could possibly ever get incase someone wants to buy it. Although I could see them using that for BI purposes to be like X Users were wearing headphones on these types of posts, but that may be giving them too much credit.

[-] dan@upvote.au 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No - DuckDuckGo blocks the app from getting the data. It doesn't know if that particular data is being sent over the internet or not. Seeing headphone status in its list just means the app tried to check the headphone status, not that it tried to send it anywhere.

this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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