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To be honest, tracker control must have taken some of these links from the posts even if you don’t click on the link. So I reinstalled the application, but everything related to Google from screenshot remained when other applications are clean.
I saw this with other Lemmy apps recently. It 100% grabs trackers from posts as well. The remaining Google ones are likely related to ads in the app which I would expect to disappear when you remove ads.
So I tested other Lemmy apps. Liftoff is clean, but tracker control grabs all links form it. But now I’m using Thunder, and after 20min of using, it only detect one link - to reddit.
Pihole off on my home network, TC running.
Open Sync (I paid for ultra, so no ads) and then exported the csv. There were zero hits.
Open theScore (riddled with trackers and ads) and then exported the csv. There were 16 hits.
My goal wasn’t to compare Sync to other Lemmy apps, it was to compare it to something I know has a bunch of trackers/ads in it. theScore is a sports news/scores app.
upd. To be honest, tracker control must have taken some of these links from the posts even if you don’t click on the link. So I reinstalled the application, but everything related to Google from screenshot remained when other applications are clean.
I saw this with other Lemmy apps recently. It 100% grabs trackers from posts as well. The remaining Google ones are likely related to ads in the app which I would expect to disappear when you remove ads.
I’ll give it a whirl and report back in a bit.
So I tested other Lemmy apps. Liftoff is clean, but tracker control grabs all links form it. But now I’m using Thunder, and after 20min of using, it only detect one link - to reddit.
Here’s how I tested:
Pihole off on my home network, TC running. Open Sync (I paid for ultra, so no ads) and then exported the csv. There were zero hits. Open theScore (riddled with trackers and ads) and then exported the csv. There were 16 hits.
Left is Sync, right is theScore.
Why wouldn’t you compare this with liftoff or jerboa? What’s theScore?
My goal wasn’t to compare Sync to other Lemmy apps, it was to compare it to something I know has a bunch of trackers/ads in it. theScore is a sports news/scores app.