#Woolworths forced a Rewards app upgrade, and it now turns the screen brightness way up on the main screen, then back to my settings on subsequent screens, then back to VERY BRIGHT each time in the main screen.
Combined with the constant thousands of tracking attempts, it's like they don't want you to use it.
Thank you to the Duck Duck Go browser for showing me the constant barrage of tracking which Woolworths does - orders of magnitude worse than any other app 
@alexia
As an alternative, you can run #Blokada on your phone. The advantage is that it can use multiple blocklists simultaneously, not just #DuckDuckGo's. The disadvantage is that it doesn't tell you which app tried to track you, and so it's harder to identify and remove apps that don't respect your privacy.
Remember: always strip UTM (tracking) codes from a URL you share.
Unless it contains the word mastodon.
(That is the part in a URL after the question mark)
Die einzige Konstante über diese 6 Jahre 3rd-Party-Cookie-Gerangel:
Unsere Empfehlung, sich gegen #Tracking durch #AdTech aber auch andere #Spyware im Browser zu schützen.
Ein paar Minuten für mehr Privatsphäre.
https://dnip.ch/2023/12/20/tracking-nein-danke/
Car #Subscription Features Raise Your Risk of Government #Surveillance , #Police Records Show
Records reviewed by WIRED show law enforcement agencies are eager to take advantage of the data trails generated by a flood of new internet-connected vehicle features.
#tracking
https://www.wired.com/story/police-records-car-subscription-features-surveillance/
Perplexity CEO Says Its Browser Will Track Everything Users Do Online To Sell ‘Hyper Personalized’ Ads https://wonderfulengineering.com/perplexity-ceo-says-its-browser-will-track-everything-users-do-online-to-sell-hyper-personalized-ads/
Perplexity wants to buy Chrome if Google has to sell it https://www.theverge.com/policy/654835/perplexity-google-antitrust-trial-remedies-chrome
if you know anyone running the 2025 London Marathon, today...
you can track their progress at:
https://results.tcslondonmarathon.com/2025/?pid=leaderboard&pidp=leaderboardoard&pidp=leaderboard
#Perplexity #CEO says its #browser, #Comet, will track everything users do online to sell #ads
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Should Americans Worry About Mass Surveillance in the US?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4WikiabOXg
f you’re wondering if your phone is listening to you…
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This is why Big Tech sites are free of cost, and thriving
I picked up on this today after noticing ZenArmor blocking masses of attempts on my network from a mobile device trying to phone home for an app called Appsflyer. It seems it is embedded into apps for Meta (which operates Facebook, Instagram, and Wh ...continues
See https://gadgeteer.co.za/this-is-why-big-tech-sites-are-free-of-cost-and-thriving/
This is what I've been talking about: you phone isn't listening to audio - it doesn't have to, they get enough for surveillance and tracking via metadata
https://newatlas.com/computers/smartphone-listening-conversations-ads-facebook/
#Chinesisches #Tracking #Ship spürt #Raketen und #Satelliten auf.
Erste Fotos zeigen ein neues, verblüffend großes #Bahnverfolgungsschiff. Das #chinesische #Schiff ist größer als seine Vorgänger und die #US-Pendants.
Dabei handelt es sich um ein etwa 225 Meter langes und 32 Meter breites Schiff mit einer riesigen Radaranlage aus mindestens fünf Radomen in verschiedenen Größen. Damit ist es ein Bahnverfolgungsschiff, auch Tracking Ship genannt.
So @Beavernotes suddenly appeared in my timeline today ... which is cool.
But I see Beaver Notes is being reviewed in the same way as a lot of other open source projects are. I don't blame BN here, but it's a trend I'm seeing. And it feels quite odd.
First of all, BN is an application for writing text and making notes.
The reviewer states these two points first:
Privacy: All your data is stored on your device.
Offline mode: Allows you to create and edit notes without an internet connection.
I mean ... it's a text editor you install locally on your system. It's the typical functionality of any text editors.
Another thing which also appears in many open source apps is «we don't track you» or «no adds in this app»-
It just makes me sad ... because no tracking and no ads should be the normal situation for any application. And applications not needing to communicate with other services over a network shouldn't need to promote «no network access needed».
It is my strong opinion that applications tracking users, enforcing ads and requiring network access for whatever reason when not strictly needed should be forced to put a large sticker on their application of these unwanted «features». Not the other way around.
After attempted blackmail at Life360: Data of 443,000 users probably leaked
Following a ransomware incident at "Life360", a popular tracker app for families, a criminal has published data in the underground forum.
Hey, I don’t want to alarm anyone, but....we should all be alarmed. This kind of tracking is how the Nazis were able to kidnap and hide the fact that they were murdering differently abled children, well before the camps were built.
The National Institutes of Health is amassing private medical records from a number of federal and commercial databases to give to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s new effort to study #autism, the #NIH's top official said Monday.
In addition, a new disease registry is being launched to track Americans with autism, ....
Between 10 and 20 outside groups of researchers will be given grant funding and access to the records to produce Kennedy's autism studies. Bhattacharya did not give details on how they would be chosen, ...."
#rfk #quacks #science #tracking #privacy #ppi #infosec
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-autism-study-medical-records/
(Doh, forgot link)
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