I block trackers in Safari, use a small number of native apps, and disable location services for all but a couple of them. Half an hour was long enough to churn out a list of 85 non-random TLDs. Some examples were surprising.
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Lyft transmits precise device location information of riders on each launch to AppBoy (now “Braze”) for no defensible reason:pic.twitter.com/i3wTVE03wB
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Opening Saatchi and tapping *three* buttons is enough to broadcast data to BlueCore, Attn, Storygize, DoubleClick, Pinterest, 3lift, Crashlytics, Instana, Attentive, Cogocast, Postrelease, Sharethrough, Taboola, Teads, Castle, BounceExchange, Trustpilot, and more. Uninstall this.pic.twitter.com/qdDBBhMGmn
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Some especially well-behaved apps: Slack, Chase, everything by Ubiquiti, Authy, Libby, 42, Paprika.
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My (sad) takeaway is that I generally don't feel comfortable using native apps absent something like Little Snitch or a full-tunnel VPN with a comprehensive DNS blocklist – which is what's happening right now:pic.twitter.com/PePqW6ssSI
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GDPR and CCPA are wonderful laws, but have barely made a dent in pervasive tracking and device fingerprinting. App privacy and tracker mapping is a rich field for research. But I'd love to see a dent in this catastrophe of trust in 2020.
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Sooo for folks not able to set up their own VPN, what services do you recommend?
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A friend recommended NextDNS, a DNS-only VPN service designed for this. I haven’t tried it, but could be worth checking out.
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