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The Zuck suck is in full swing. (social.fossware.space)

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."

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[-] donut4ever@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago

If you have an android phone, take a look at TrackerControl. It's not on the play store, you get it from F-Droid. It even caught DDG sneaking in some trackers. It's FOSS

[-] KammicRelief@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Just installed it, thanks. Looks good!

[-] donut4ever@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Absolutely, enjoy and spread the word, please. Hope the dev gets some support.

[-] fessord@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Cant get it to work alongside my vpn.

[-] donut4ever@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah, it is either VPN or the app unfortunately

[-] 7802403@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

How is this compared to Blokada?

[-] donut4ever@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Blockada blocks mostly ads, right? This blocks everything that is not good. Lol. Try it and see. Sometimes it's so aggressive that some apps/sites don't work. But I freaking love it. I also use an app called URL check that checks every URL you click on them gives you the option to choose what app to launch it with and also to remove any suspicious links/trackers in the link

[-] 7802403@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Holy crap, TrackControl is really good and informative! Scary to see which companies try to gather your information! Thanks for this. I thought Blokada was the best. Going to try out URLCheck as well. Any other privacy apps for Android or even for Windows hit me up!

[-] donut4ever@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Glad you've found them useful. Please spread the word so more people can benefit and the devs could hopefully get done donations :)

[-] donut4ever@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Also, not sure if you know about newpipe sponsor block app for YouTube, revanced manager to patch apps like YouTube to block ads, sponsor block and all that. Also, search for xmanager that disables ads on Spotify. All legal stuff, btw.

[-] 7802403@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, i've been using Revanced. Thanks!

[-] donut4ever@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

You're welcome. :)

[-] techt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[-] donut4ever@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

You're welcome

[-] chrizbie@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 years ago

I've been using blokada 5 for quite a while and it seems pretty good although it's recently switched to a subscription service in version 6 (you can still use 5 for free)

I might look into Trackercontrol instead, thanks!

[-] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Can't find it. Is it under a different name in f droid?

Edit: found it. Thank you

this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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