WTH is this shit?!

edit: for those wondering, the setting can be found under Settings -> Privacy -> GDPR for the EU version only I think

  • Melco@lemmy.worldEnglish
    221·
    1 year ago

    Thunder has user tracking code.

    Jerboa and Liftoff respect users privacy and are solid options.

    • steveman_ha@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Can confirm, Jeroba has been really solid (minor hiccups occasionally w/ feeds and inbox not loading – usually fixed by refresh, sometimes by app restart) for the few weeks I’ve been using it. Well-featured, and looks/“feels” nice!!

    • UhBell@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Can you provide a source on that? DDG has shown zero tracking attempts from Thunder.

      • Melco@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yes exodus privacy maintains a database of each android app and all the trackers they contain.

        There is an exodus app called classy shark on fdroid which will scan the installed app code on your phone and tell you which trackers it contains right down to the Java class name that are called.

        So you don’t need a source go ahead and scan it yourself in realtime, I did and the tracker is there. I don’t recall which tracking platform its using as I uninstalled it afterwar the positive result.

        Finally, the developer, when asked about the tracking in another thread said he “might” consider removing it in the future.

        The other two major open source apps Jerboa and liftoff are clean and respect users privacy.