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[–] Palerider@feddit.uk 47 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)
[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

24k sweet baby Jesus they want yer precious bodily fluids m8.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why the fuck does BBC sounds have so much tracking???

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Probably to collect all that it can to sell the data. Or they fucked up the feature and it triggers a connection attempt each second or sth.

[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, even for your average commercial app, that's an absolutely insane rate. I'm betting it keeps retrying whenever it fails or something

[–] expr@programming.dev 9 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, honestly that almost looks like straight-up incompetence, like a ton of polling going on.

[–] Palerider@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I wondered that but I'm no tech expert.

[–] henfredemars 6 points 2 weeks ago

Lots of these trackers and advertisers will happily serve you literal malware. It’s not safe to browse unprotected.

[–] Lag@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What do you use to block attempts?

[–] daslfc@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Looks like the duckduck go app for android

[–] Lag@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you. I knew they had a browser but I didn't know it could also block tracking from other apps. Definitely useful.

[–] Palerider@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yup... Duckduckgo.

[–] devdoggy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait, what app are you using?

[–] Palerider@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

I use duckduckgo browser. It has an App tracker blocker.