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When you say "phone home", how can we determine what kind of info is it sending to places like Facebook, Taboola, etc? What does "phone home" actually mean?
by crispyambulance 6y ago
When you say "phone home", how can we determine what kind of info is it sending to places like Facebook, Taboola, etc?
What does "phone home" actually mean?
- izacus 6y agoIn most cases this comes from mobile ad/analytics frameworks (Facebook Ads/SDK, Google AdMob, StartApp, Chartboost, MoPub, etc. etc.). They usually ping back with usage counters and probably other analytics data. In many cases those SDKs even join data between apps on your device (e.g. you give your age to app A, your name to app B, your location to app C and they merge it on the backend). This data is then shown to users and in a lot of cases also sold in bulk. Note that most of these frameworks target iOS first and Android second - due to population and revenue.