this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
1370 points (90.5% liked)
Liftoff!
4354 readers
1 users here now
A mobile client for Lemmy running on iOS and Android
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Because people have run analysis on the activity of the app already and the trackers don't fire if you aren't on the ad supported version.
All of the listed stuff is also required for serving ads through services like Google and pretty normal for ad-supported apps.
His dad works at Sync for Lemmy