Re:Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers
by izacus on Saturday April 13, 2019 @01:18PM
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It'll cost you all your apps - it's the APP DEVELOPERS who are putting those trackers in and you'll need to give the apps up to get rid of them.
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Re:Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers
by AznHisoka on Saturday April 13, 2019 @01:41PM
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Apple seems to giving the appearance they are doing something about it. They claim they will remove apps that sell your location data. However Foursquare is still in the App Store, so we can’t take their claims seriously yet.
Re:Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers
by willstrafach on Sunday April 14, 2019 @01:20AM
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> They claim they will remove apps that sell your location data
They most definitely do not remove such apps.
Use an app like Charles Proxy or Burp Suite to inspect the traffic of your phone when running the “Perfect365” app. It is really remarkable, and Apple is aware of what they are doing.
Re:Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers
by stordoff on Saturday April 13, 2019 @09:14PM
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Or we'll pivot back to a paid model, or ads without / with less tracking - I don't think that's a bad trade.
Re:Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers
by pergadad on Sunday April 14, 2019 @03:25PM
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I just installed exodus and noticed plenty of the app's I paid for still have trackers...
Re:Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers
by TeMPOraL on Sunday April 14, 2019 @06:43AM
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The trust has been broken. There needs to be a way to make sure this is a transition to "paid, no ads/tracking" and not "paid plus ads/tracking".
One interesting side effect of GDPR is the surprising amount of PC games - games for which I paid price that's presumably profitable to the authors - that started throwing up consent forms.