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.”

    • donut4ever@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      1 year 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

        • donut4ever@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          1 year 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.eeEnglish
            2·
            1 year 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.worldEnglish
              3·
              1 year 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.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 year 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.

      • chrizbie@lemmy.nzEnglish
        1·
        1 year 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!

    • SpicaNucifera@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been using Chrome with Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin for eons, now. Listening to youtube playlists without getting interrupted by ads is a real treat…

        • sedgewick@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Is it AI based? I thought people add their own time segments with a label. I know I can turn the feature on to do that using Revanced.

            • chas@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              1 year ago

              It’s not AI based whatsoever and is entirely crowdsourced by users creating the segments. Not sure where you got the idea AI has any part in it other than a purely blind assumption that you’re now spreading as fact.

              https://sponsor.ajay.app/about/

              • magnetosphere@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                …a purely blind assumption that you’re now spreading as fact.

                Hey, let’s not dismiss this technique out of hand. Sometimes, it helps people get elected President!

        • SpicaNucifera@lemm.eeEnglish
          24·
          1 year ago

          squints …that sounds annoying. I honestly don’t mind sponsors. It’s a simple way for content creators to make money. I just ignore or skip.

          • popemichael@lemmy.worldEnglish
            8·
            1 year ago

            You literally don’t notice it. That’s the point.

            It’s like it cuts it out using a scalpel

            You get weeks of your life back from one add-on.