I was planning to wait and see what Boost has to offer before deciding if I should pay $20 to remove ads on Sync, but seeing this has convinced me to delete the app for good. Even Reddit isn’t half as bad as Sync when it comes to trackers and shady ads.
Just about any and every news site has a sign in that you can use Facebook or Gmail to log in, probably AppleID, but I don’t use Apple products so I’ve never noticed, as well as creating a site specific account to log in.
ETA: Look at the pic, it’s saying
GmailGoogle pulled data from within eBay.Sure but if you’re not signing in to each and every site, which, like, nobody does on this site I’ll tell you that much, does it still track you? Wouldn’t be surprised either way
It doesn’t matter.
Those little login buttons make a call to their host (google/fb/etc), and that is what shows up in these shitty tracking apps, even if you don’t press them.
Using a Google fonts font? That’s a call to Google.
This is the norm on the Internet. You’d be hard pressed to find a site that doesn’t send some data to somewhere else for some service.
If I click a link in Sync, and I have an account for that site, I log in for my view preferences, and to save something to read later.
You also don’t need to log in for a site to track who’s visiting it. It’s like website 101 now, that every site tracks how anyone interacts with it.
I just opened sync after installing Duck Duck Go. From within sync, Google requested 33 pieces of data. Google. Not sync. Google requested the data from within Sync. I’m fairly certain the only link to Sync that Google has, is the app store.
The ads that sync serves aren’t google?
I haven’t seen any ads in my Sync yet. Don’t have the space where they should be or anything. I haven’t paid either. I’m wondering if maybe it took the vanced that I had for reddit or something. But so far, it looks like I have a pair version of Sync, without having paid.