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On the privacy end of things, ads certainly aren't helping, but a pretty large number of even paid apps are happily vacuuming up data and sending them to the de
by zerocrates 6y ago
On the privacy end of things, ads certainly aren't helping, but a pretty large number of even paid apps are happily vacuuming up data and sending them to the developer and often third parties (vendors of analytics/debugging platforms in particular). I tend to think of an app for most things as a loss of privacy and try to avoid using them when possible.
- jfkebwjsbx 6y ago> a pretty large number of even paid apps are happily vacuuming up data and sending them to the developer and often third parties Please name some examples. I certainly do not have not use nor know about any paid software that "vacuums" my actual data or tries to track me. > analytics/debugging platforms You cannot compare anonymous, aggregate details about overall usage of an app or crash stacktraces (which is what most paid/OSS apps do) to the kind of identification webs do for ads. Again: native apps do not care about showing personalized ads to you nor their business depends on it. > I tend to think of an app for most things as a loss of privacy Mobile apps from vendors like Facebook definitely. Normal paid/OSS desktop software, no.