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[–] 17 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

You know where those trackers mostly come from? From the linked websites you visited in the posts.

If you change the Settings shortcut: Link handling > Default browser to "open externally" that should give you a more accurate picture of the trackers included in Sync. By default it will load the websites inside the app, which will give an inaccurate picture of the tracking taking place.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)
  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    Well what can I say ... Are those tracking requests or?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Maybe this user paid for removing ads, and the tracking requests you’re seeing are ad tracker requests

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    No, I haven't paid for anything, I just found it interesting that Sync has much more trackers than other apps, also for much more companies!

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Jfc, go scroll through this c/ and look for the other posts about this.

    This is a known effect of the ad server. It is not from the app otherwise.

    Those trackers are Google based.

    every app that has ads is exactly the same as this

    The few that may be from other sources will be from the browser, based on the sites visited. Again, this is the same for any app that connects to websites in the same way.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Just block ads with a DNS blocker, eg NextDNS

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    How can people here say they're so concerned with privacy, but not understand how it can fundamentally work..?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Where do you see that in the app?

    Edit: !syncforlemmy@lemmy.world is the real community

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