According to the tracking scanner Exodus (can be found on F-Droid), which keeps an updated database on trackers and runs your installed app against its register, you can track what apps are tracking you and clues of how. Saw that Boost is tracking me and uninstalled it and went straight to Jerboa. Jerboa is pretty similar to good ole’ RedditIsFun-app and easy to use, so I am personally recommending it.

From F-Droid:

Exodus (Exodus show you trackers and permissions in apps installed on your device.) https://f-droid.org/packages/org.eu.exodus_privacy.exodusprivacy/

      • stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        71·
        8 hours ago

        i just thought it’s a bit useless to delete an app “because it has Google trackers” and then keep using 23 other apps that have Google trackers

    • mugthol@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      329·
      14 hours ago

      But that’s one less app and there are great alternatives, so why continue using one that tracks you?

          • TayamExplorer
            1·
            11 hours ago

            No it doesn’t. Check literally all of the top comments, you bot.

            • burgersc12@mander.xyzEnglish
              11·
              9 hours ago

              Someone didn’t read the privacy policy summary.

              Privacy Policy of Boost for Lemmy This Application collects some Personal Data from its Users. This document can be printed for reference by using the print command in the settings of any browser. Policy summary Personal Data processed for the following purposes and using the following services: Advertising Amazon Mobile Ads and AppLovin Personal Data: Trackers; Usage Data AdMob Personal Data: Trackers; unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example); Usage Data…

              • TayamExplorer
                1·
                9 hours ago

                And you didn’t read the prompt on launch of the free version that details the paid version doesn’t have any tracking and doesn’t even load those libraries, dumbfuck 🙄.

                Although judging by your twisting of words and presumptuous ignorance you have no interest in the truth. You’d most likely prefer to suck another app’s boots and shill for them through fucking lies.

                • burgersc12@mander.xyzEnglish
                  1·
                  2 hours ago

                  So its a lie to post the privacy policy and state what is in it? I wasn’t talking about the paid version (which is part of “opting out” i mentioned in my first comment) and I’m like 99% sure the guy I replied to wasn’t talking about the paid one when he said “it doesn’t”, but I could be wrong.

      • stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1212·
        13 hours ago

        I have bought the premium version because it was really cheap so no it doesn’t track me

        • Allero@lemmy.today
          53·
          12 hours ago

          You do you, most goes with what’s free and there are plenty of good free options available.

          Ads are a bad way of funding the development, especially for Lemmy, a place where a lot of people are increasingly privacy-minded.

          • stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            62·
            10 hours ago

            Ads are a bad way of funding the development, especially for Lemmy

            couldn’t agree more! that’s why I bought the premium version