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It started with the absolute astonishing amount of data that VS Code sends back to Microsoft, now it's pretty standard. If you really want to see what your dev
by thejosh 4y ago
It started with the absolute astonishing amount of data that VS Code sends back to Microsoft, now it's pretty standard.
If you really want to see what your devices send back, monitor DNS on your devices.
I installed a bunch of apps on a spare phone (that had no sim card) and was VERY surprised how much background data and requests Tiktok used.
- jeroenhd 4y agoDNS isn't enough, applications have been sneaking off data to hard-coded IPs and through other means for at least 15 years now. These days we have DoH as a standard, but way before that I spotted a Windows application execute HTTP requests to resolve IP addresses for their tracking domain. With some effort you can MitM your phone with your own certificate authority and a tool like mitmproxy in transparent mode. It still won't detect all of the trackers (detecting MitM is quite easy with certificate pinning), but it'll show you even clearer how much you're being tracked. Expect every API to also be a tracking endpoint, and expect every application you use to upload your location. There are apps that do well, but they've become the exception rather than the rule.