I have been noticing an increasing amount of apps on droidify, that are not supposed to have trackers, obtain trackers after being updated. I dont know if its amongst the developers themselves or Google’s forced pushed on getting apps approved through their store, but it should be put in the description of these apps before they are downloaded that trackers have been added.

For example, these are some apps that are NOT supposed to have trackers, in fact do have trackers:

Or

Some of these apps, my phone dosent pick up that it contains trackers unless i look at Tracker Control

  1. Blorp (Lemmy)
  2. FossWallet (this one just happened, this wallet NEVER had trackers until a recent update)
  3. All of the browser apps on drodify (even the private ones) - the only one that admits to have anti-privacy features is Tor.
  4. Rush (Music Lyrics App) (description has been updated to show it has trackers) i dont understand why a music lyrics app has trackers on it
  5. PipePipe (viewed on tracker control)
  6. Tuta(viewed on tracker control)
  7. Droidify (yes, droidify itself contains trackers)
  8. AntennaPod(viewed on tracker control)
  • LemUrun@pawb.social
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    16 hours ago

    Like apps on Play Store and App Store: first release doesn’t contain ads, but second release adds them. ¯\(ツ)/¯