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> There's no "personal information" here, but honestly this amount of data shared with an arbitrary list of 3rd parties is scary. Why do they need to know my sc
by AyyEye 2y ago
> There's no "personal information" here, but honestly this amount of data shared with an arbitrary list of 3rd parties is scary.
Why do they need to know my screen brightness, memory amount, current volume and if I'm wearing headphones?
Screen brightness, boot time, memory, and network operator could probably fingerprint any device all by itself.
- maximilianthe1 2y agoA lot of people have "autobrightness" on. I'd think brightness doesn't help much here
- landr0id 2y agoKind of a joke, but it could be useful for determining if they should serve light-mode or dark-mode ads. But I suppose they could just detect if dark/light mode are enabled.
- saagarjha 2y agoWhy would you serve dark-mode ads? Clearly you would pick the brightest option all the time.
- sky2224 2y agoAutomatic brightness probably helps honestly. It could help confirm whether someone is in fact in an area that has high levels of lighting around them (e.g., in a store, at a beach on a sunny day, etc.) Everything little piece of data that is gathered and used can help even if it isn't immediately apparent. Now I could be wrong on this, but I feel like advertisers don't need to know something is true about a user, they just need to be confident something is true about a user and that's where data points like screen brightness can be of help to them.