And this was only the vendors page. There was another main page for advertisers.
It is scandalous how much information is gathered for such a simple app.
Yeah, every time I stumbled with and app with that pop-up I immediately uninstall it…
Number of trackers and cookies I had to go thru after installing a currency converter app
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mrfriki@lemmy.world 40 minutes ago
Witchfire@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I miss when you could toss an app developer $5 and never have to deal with ads or data mining. Nowadays everything is a subscription model absolutely riddled with both.
rounding_error@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
This is maybe the most logically extreme example of malicious GDPR compliance.
dorumon@lemmy.cafe 1 hour ago
This came free on my fucking flip phone. The hell kinda malware apps are you even installing? Don’t you know you can just use a foss app instead?
TheFriendlyDickhead@feddit.org 1 minute ago
I think thats the standard google add bullshit. Thit doesn’t feel like it complies to eu law, but somehow it does apperently.
And what anoys me the most about this is that legitimite interest already includes saving all your data, building a profile of you and selling that data. So what the hell is not legitimate interest? Selling your soul?