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Re: [Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You Know Nothing About

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On 12/05/2019 2:12 am, Rich wrote:
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> <URL:https://onezero.medium.com/the-app-privacy-crisis-apple-and-google-
> need-to-fix-now-4e3590f2fc52>
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> The text below is a quotation from the URL above:
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>>   Most of us understand by now that we're being followed across the web.
>>   But how much do we know about how the smartphone apps we use track our
>>   every move? Thanks to tiny pieces of code that millions of developers
>>   use to make their lives easier, an array of companies gets free access
>>   to data they can employ to understand your habits. The process is
>>   invisible, and it's worse news for you than you might think.
>>
>>   When we browse the web through Google Chrome, for example, a dizzying
>>   array of companies follow us. Such is the Wild West of our modern web,
>>   but you still remain in control of which sites you visit and which
>>   social networks you log into.
>>
>>   The shift to native apps changes this equation, however. Suddenly you're
>>   no longer in full control of what's loaded, nor of who is tracking you,
>>   and you must trust app developers to do the right thing.
>>
>>   On mobile, tracking is generally performed through the use of a
>>   "software development kit" or SDK - a set of tools that helps app
>>   developers get something done faster. Many SDKs help developers debug
>>   their code or hook into useful services, but others help advertisers and
>>   marketing companies peer into your private life. Take the iHeartRadio
>>   app for example: Last fall, Medium reported that it contained code from
>>   Cuebiq's SDK, which would permit user data to be sold for the purposes
>>   of ad tracking.
>>
>>   ...

People putting trackers on my phone will discover that I spend too much 
time at McDonald's. They won't learn much else.

Perhaps I'll start receiving advertisements for coronary-bypass surgeons.

Sylvia.

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[Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You Know Nothing About Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-05-11 16:12 +0000
  Re: [Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You Know Nothing About Batchman <batchman@dosville.foo> - 2019-05-11 21:13 +0000
    Re: [Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You Know Nothing About RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-05-11 21:06 -0400
      Re: [Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You Know Nothing About ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2019-05-11 22:55 -0500
  Re: [Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You Know Nothing About Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-05-12 15:17 +1000
    Re: [Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You  Know Nothing About Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-05-13 03:14 -0300
      Re: [Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You Know Nothing About Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-05-13 17:25 +1000
      Re: [Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You Know Nothing About Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2019-05-13 12:35 +0100
        Re: [Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You Know Nothing About Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-05-13 14:15 +0000
        Re: [Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You Know Nothing About Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-05-13 22:58 +0000
    Re: [Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You Know Nothing About not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-05-13 22:56 +0000
      Re: [Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You Know Nothing About Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-05-14 00:23 +0000
      Re: [Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You Know Nothing About Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2019-05-14 00:24 +0000
      Re: [Link Posting] Your Smartphone Apps Are Filled With Trackers You Know Nothing About RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-05-14 18:46 -0400

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