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Re:Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers by bradly on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @01:02PM (#22172105)
Crash reporting can be important, but there isn't a requirement to use an advertising company to facilitate it.
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Re:Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers by avree on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @02:26PM (#22173132)
This sort of pedantic hand-wringing is tiring. Google sells many things, one of which is advertising. Firebase Crashlytics may be free, but it's made available by Google in the hopes that developers pay for Firebase's full suite of paid offerings—it's not to populate additional user data to their ad or search algorithms.
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Re:Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers by bradly on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @02:32PM (#22173191)
> it's not to populate additional user data to their ad or search algorithms.

How do you know this?

Is it "pedantic hand-wringing" to not want my DNA analyzed by an advertising company as well?

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