Shocking list of user information that the Reddit app tried to collect about upon opening the app. No wonder reddit killed third-party browsers.
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Unique Identifier
OS Version
Screen Density
Device Orientation
City
GPS Coordinates
Device Total Memory
Cookies
Device Name
Device Boot Time
Email Address
Country
Timezone
CPU Data
Screen Resolution
Android Advertising ID
Available Internal Storage
App Name
Network Connection Type
Gender
Postal Code
App Version
Headphone Status
Local IP Address
State
Device Model
App Install Date
First Name
Device Language
Charging Status
System Volume
Battery Level
Device Brand
Last Name
OS Build Number
Network Carrier
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Unique Identifier
OS Version
Screen Density
Device Orientation
City
GPS Coordinates
Device Total Memory
Cookies
Device Name
Device Boot Time
Email Address
Country
Timezone
CPU Data
Screen Resolution
Android Advertising ID
Available Internal Storage
App Name
Network Connection Type
Gender
Postal Code
App Version
Headphone Status
Local IP Address
State
Device Model
App Install Date
First Name
Device Language
Charging Status
System Volume
Battery Level
Device Brand
Last Name
OS Build Number
Network Carrier
Jesus. Lemmy ftw
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Unique Identifier
OS Version
Screen Density
Device Orientation
City
GPS Coordinates
Device Total Memory
Cookies
Device Name
Device Boot Time
Email Address
Country
Timezone
CPU Data
Screen Resolution
Android Advertising ID
Available Internal Storage
App Name
Network Connection Type
Gender
Postal Code
App Version
Headphone Status
Local IP Address
State
Device Model
App Install Date
First Name
Device Language
Charging Status
System Volume
Battery Level
Device Brand
Last Name
OS Build Number
Network Carrier
Some people will have this on their phone and be irate when a FOSS app includes a crash report tracker.
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Unique Identifier
OS Version
Screen Density
Device Orientation
City
GPS Coordinates
Device Total Memory
Cookies
Device Name
Device Boot Time
Email Address
Country
Timezone
CPU Data
Screen Resolution
Android Advertising ID
Available Internal Storage
App Name
Network Connection Type
Gender
Postal Code
App Version
Headphone Status
Local IP Address
State
Device Model
App Install Date
First Name
Device Language
Charging Status
System Volume
Battery Level
Device Brand
Last Name
OS Build Number
Network Carrier
My lesson in this was way back when LinkedIn came out with an app. I installed it and the first thing it did was ask me for all my contacts and start pinging tracking servers. I uninstalled it immediately and avoided apps for web services after that.
Later that year, I found that if I HAD allowed that app to do what it wanted, it would have grabbed all that data and sent it to the company, who was selling it off to third parties. They got in a big class action lawsuit for it.
Those were the days. Now it’s just expected behavior.
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Jesus. Lemmy ftw
Some of the instances do this here. This is not a 100% haven. It's great and waaaay better, but still, check into your instances, Lemmies.
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My lesson in this was way back when LinkedIn came out with an app. I installed it and the first thing it did was ask me for all my contacts and start pinging tracking servers. I uninstalled it immediately and avoided apps for web services after that.
Later that year, I found that if I HAD allowed that app to do what it wanted, it would have grabbed all that data and sent it to the company, who was selling it off to third parties. They got in a big class action lawsuit for it.
Those were the days. Now it’s just expected behavior.
Reminds me of the time I was at a security conference. Obviously there was a lot of networking going on and a group of people I was talking to decided to connect on linkedin. They were sharing the qr code thing from the app and I said I didn’t have it. At first they thought I wasn’t on linkedin (and were baffled at that), and I had to clarify I HAVE an account but I don’t have the app on my phone. They were confused and I had to explain how much info the app wants to grab. And this was at an application security conference.
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Some of the instances do this here. This is not a 100% haven. It's great and waaaay better, but still, check into your instances, Lemmies.
How is an instance going to get my battery level?
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Unique Identifier
OS Version
Screen Density
Device Orientation
City
GPS Coordinates
Device Total Memory
Cookies
Device Name
Device Boot Time
Email Address
Country
Timezone
CPU Data
Screen Resolution
Android Advertising ID
Available Internal Storage
App Name
Network Connection Type
Gender
Postal Code
App Version
Headphone Status
Local IP Address
State
Device Model
App Install Date
First Name
Device Language
Charging Status
System Volume
Battery Level
Device Brand
Last Name
OS Build Number
Network Carrier
Here's the full report:
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.reddit.frontpage/latest/
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