In the few short hours since I started using #Threads, #DuckDuckGo has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like “headphone status” and “screen density.”

  • Polydextrous@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Well, what we learned from those tech whistleblowers was that, even those of us that never even made a FB account have a profile made of us from pictures and things people said about us on their fuckin FB accounts. This probably goes for those of us born before ‘95, but I would assume that practice is only heightened by data scraped from Android devices, the expanded access via Instagram, the leaps in tech, etc for those born after ‘95.

    So buckle up, folks. It’s all bad.

    • morriscox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      They’re called shadow profiles. They were also using information from the contact information in your phonebook.