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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 74 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I block 99% of all trackers and social media.

I can't even order a fucking pizza online.

fuck this commercial world.

[–] Palerider@feddit.uk 50 points 1 month ago (5 children)
[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

24k sweet baby Jesus they want yer precious bodily fluids m8.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why the fuck does BBC sounds have so much tracking???

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Probably to collect all that it can to sell the data. Or they fucked up the feature and it triggers a connection attempt each second or sth.

[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, even for your average commercial app, that's an absolutely insane rate. I'm betting it keeps retrying whenever it fails or something

[–] expr@programming.dev 11 points 1 month ago

Yeah, honestly that almost looks like straight-up incompetence, like a ton of polling going on.

[–] Palerider@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I wondered that but I'm no tech expert.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 6 points 4 weeks ago

Lots of these trackers and advertisers will happily serve you literal malware. It’s not safe to browse unprotected.

[–] Lag@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What do you use to block attempts?

[–] daslfc@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Looks like the duckduck go app for android

[–] Lag@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Thank you. I knew they had a browser but I didn't know it could also block tracking from other apps. Definitely useful.

[–] Palerider@feddit.uk 2 points 4 weeks ago

Yup... Duckduckgo.

[–] devdoggy@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait, what app are you using?

[–] Palerider@feddit.uk 2 points 4 weeks ago

I use duckduckgo browser. It has an App tracker blocker.