As long as we’re goin’ full tilt boogie…
…it’s my understanding that most of the idle apps installed on your device have permission to collect info and phone it home to the dev.
Not used for months or years. Permitted to mine your life.
One guy here who claimed to be in the business said, essentially, don’t uninstall your idle apps to avoid it, that data collection is the model that funds independent development!
Having judiciously chosen for privacy the apps I’ve installed, I was curious to see what DDG had to say about the extent of 3rd party tracking. I was encouraged to find that there was virtually no indication of it if an app wasn’t active.
But as I said, how many may be collecting and sending straight to the dev is still a mystery.
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