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YSK: Lemmy browsing app Boost is tracking your data for profiling and more! Consider using other trackingless Lemmy apps such as Jerboa or Voyager

According to the tracking scanner Exodus (can be found on F-Droid), which keeps an updated database on trackers and runs your installed app against its register, you can track what apps are tracking you and clues of how. Saw that Boost is tracking me and uninstalled it and went straight to Jerboa. Jerboa is pretty similar to good ole' RedditIsFun-app and easy to use, so I am personally recommending it.

From F-Droid:

Exodus (Exodus show you trackers and permissions in apps installed on your device.) https://f-droid.org/packages/org.eu.exodus_privacy.exodusprivacy/

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  • Stop using boost ages ago. The lack of updates makes the app unusable hardly usable anyway.

    • News to me. Boost is not only extremely usable, it's more so than the others I tried, which was basically all the android apps.

      • Try more apps, my friend.

        https://www.lemmyapps.com/

        • I have tried most of the android apps there which haven't been abandoned.

          Also, not updating frequently isn't necessarily a bad thing. I don't see bugginess and the only feature I actually want but don't have is spoiler formatting.

          In the end, the other apps feel either glitchy, too complicated, or ugly. Sync for example. If the configuration UI was way simpler, I'd probably have used it. But it wasn't and I had to dick around with settings a lot in various menus to get it about 95% as nice as boost. Why not just use the one with sane defaults? I'm good with giving $4 for software I like and use daily.

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