Android offering privacy by profiling and sharing app ussage info?
Android offering privacy by profiling and sharing app ussage info?
I might have misunderstood this but is Android really trying to push this as tracking as a privacy upgrade, simply because it let's us choose which of our interests we want advertisers to have access to?
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Any App that shows any ads gets deleted right on the spot. Simple as that.
Eh, I don't care about apps that are just utilities I use every once in a while, but I've set up my network to be unprofitable for any advertiser.
How did you do that?
Whole home VPN and a pi hole
Simple yet effective.
When I started using NextDNS, I changed my mind about that. It’s a bit like having a pi-hole with you even when you’re not on your home network.
There's probably a FOSS app that does the same thing without ads and tracking
DNS66 from F-Droid.
RethinkDNS might be good too. I think it's more powerful, and it's on F-Droid too.
Their content blocking seems to run on a cloud service that you connect to via their app but it looks like it works the same for the end user.
It's pretty multifaceted. I've got a half dozen on-device blocklists enabled, along with some app-specific filters.
Due to some Android quirk I've also been unable to use their DNS