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Re:Doing Laundry on Campus Without a Phone by scarface_74 on Saturday September 02, 2023 @03:47AM (#37359330)
How so?
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Re:Doing Laundry on Campus Without a Phone by d-s on Saturday September 02, 2023 @04:50AM (#37359649)
You can block a lot more in an browser - like links to surveillance stat systems (mixpanel). It still possible to do that with an app, but it’s much more involving
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Re:Doing Laundry on Campus Without a Phone by scarface_74 on Saturday September 02, 2023 @02:07PM (#37363963)
That’s also a permission on iOS to allow tracking.

But there is still nothing stopping a company from doing server side analytics and tracking.

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