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Within 5 minutes of usage my pihole instance blocked 100s of request and DDG app protection blocked facebook trackers. This should be illegal

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Neirin@feddit.uk
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Rotation and accelerometer data? So they want to know how you hold the phone in your hand when using the app? lol

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NicoCharrua@lemmy.ca
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iirc Google uses motion data to track if you’re walking, biking, car, etc, so I wouldn’t be surprised if Facebook/Meta did the same.

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Contramuffin@lemmy.world
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Probably meant to be a way to estimate where you are if you have GPS turned off

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