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.”

    • Hildegarde@lemmy.worldEnglish
      421·
      1 year ago

      Bluetooth headphones have unique identifying information. Another data point for apps that the headphone jack doesn’t provide.

    • MobiusNone@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      213·
      1 year ago

      Honestly not defending them because the android app can potentially track your credit score, but this is probably to pause videos when headphones unplug and perform similar actions.

      • Tag365@lemmy.worldEnglish
        141·
        1 year ago

        But it seems like DuckDuckGo is blocking them, which implies the system that’s tracking that is trying to upload that data onto a server, not just using it for pausing videos and stuff.

          • MobiusNone@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            You both are probably right I forgot this was the android app. Meta has a habit of sending everything they could possibly ever get incase someone wants to buy it. Although I could see them using that for BI purposes to be like X Users were wearing headphones on these types of posts, but that may be giving them too much credit.

        • dan@upvote.auEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          No - DuckDuckGo blocks the app from getting the data. It doesn’t know if that particular data is being sent over the internet or not. Seeing headphone status in its list just means the app tried to check the headphone status, not that it tried to send it anywhere.