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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You know where those trackers mostly come from? From the linked websites you visited in the posts.

If you change the Settings shortcut: Link handling > Default browser to "open externally" that should give you a more accurate picture of the trackers included in Sync. By default it will load the websites inside the app, which will give an inaccurate picture of the tracking taking place.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I didn't know you could embed settings shortcuts. That's pretty cool.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hey thanks for this! I dodn't know it included linked websites that makes much more sense

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well what can I say ... Are those tracking requests or?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Paid user here, the requests in my screenshot are normal web requests. Zero ad or tracking requests.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe this user paid for removing ads, and the tracking requests you’re seeing are ad tracker requests

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, I haven't paid for anything, I just found it interesting that Sync has much more trackers than other apps, also for much more companies!

[–] southsamurai 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jfc, go scroll through this c/ and look for the other posts about this.

This is a known effect of the ad server. It is not from the app otherwise.

Those trackers are Google based.

every app that has ads is exactly the same as this

The few that may be from other sources will be from the browser, based on the sites visited. Again, this is the same for any app that connects to websites in the same way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for clarifying, I just found it strange that the number was so high

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I may inquire, what app is that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just block ads with a DNS blocker, eg NextDNS

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually don't see any ads on sync this is about trackers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NextDNS blocks trackers too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ohh okay I'll check it out, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How can people here say they're so concerned with privacy, but not understand how it can fundamentally work..?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Desire alone cannot cure ignorance; information is required for that, and not everyone has the know-how to find it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Where do you see that in the app?

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