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"Uh, do I really need to install this app to order food?"

"Yes. And also we'll need access to your contacts, location 24/7, your photos, microphone, and possibly your soul."

"…I just wanted a pizza."

"Cool. In exchange, here’s 6 push notifications a day, and targeted ads for gym memberships (because you're eating too much pizza)."

Let's look at App Tracking, why it's bad & how you can turn it off 👉 tuta.com/blog/app-tracking

#AppTracking #BigTech

Text: Why app tracking is bad & how to disable it. Turn it off. Hand holding a phone with the app icons of LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Instagram, Outlook, Amazon, TikTok and Gmail.

App tracking: Why it's bad and how to stop it. | Tuta

Shops are following Google's and Facebook's example with their own tracking apps so we must say: "No, I'm not installing your app to order food!"
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Okuna

to tell iOS not to track does not mean anything. There is a study which says that 80% of the software developers ignore this, because it is a recommendation and not enforced.
And this setting is meant for external app but has no meaning to apple app. The same is true in google.

blog.appcensus.io/2019/02/14/a…

untertauchen.info/2024/04/auch…

Auch Apple ignoriert Ihre Datenschutzeinstellungen – digital untertauchen

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@FourQ ♿

This is why it pays to keep an old mobile - wipe it, minimal setup, install the apps you'd never even consider having on your main phone. It doesn't need a SIM, just wifi, so monitoring your phone's status isn't a factor. Find accounts on device, there's 1 burner Google account used only for the play store and nothing personal on there so find whatever accounts you want. Tasker force closes or disables apps completely for minimal crossover.
If I *must* install it, it's on the old phone
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