Edit: Below is my original post, will not edit original in an attempt to be transparent as it provides context to those comments. Several good comments outlining what could be going on were posted as well. Seems the list of "know to track" from that service (Google) is very different from what was actually requested by this specific app. 36 attempts so far were made, but DDG does not specify of what type.
Original: So this seems like a pretty intense level of tracking. Certainly much more than any of the other lemmy apps I have tried. I get advertisements, totally fine with them earning money, but it took me by surpise.
If I look at the privacy policy, it certainly does not indicate to me this level of monitoring.
For the record, I am not implying deception on the devs part at all, I am sure things are spelled our correctly in the privacy policy. Just wasn't sure everone was aware of the extent.
Cheers!
Edit: some people are implying I was trying to mislead with my title. For clarity I am using duckduckgo track blocker "App Tracking Protection" and it states "Tracking Attempts" https://ibb.co/DzWMFMy
The list on the original post is what data is being attempted to pull and the protection stopped as far as i can tell.
Edit 2: updated title to be more clear. Wasn't aware I could even do that!
Are those exactly what it’s tracking or what it’s “known” to track?
Former? Bad
Latter? This post is misrepresenting at best and downright malicious at worst.
Hello! Promise no malice intended.
I was just playing around with the app and noticed duckduck go blocking a ton of new tracking attempts.
I can only go by what was stated in the app as "attempts" hence my post.
Someone who understand how duckduckgos tracking blocker work might know better however. Perhaps you are 100% right.
I think that it’s just good for others to know it probably isn’t tracking all that but few go past the headline.
I have no skin in this game. Hell I have an iPhone 14 pro.