Feels like 1984

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Feel like 1984, the movie.

It used to be voluntary to allow tracking to diagnose software and hardware.

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Now there is no OFF switch.

Seems Wyze has moved to 1st place on my trackers’ list.
:slightly_frowning_face:

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Is that different than George Orwell’s novel?

Isn’t that on OS level? Tracking in iOS is controlled on OS level.

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I don’t know about Chrome but many browsers have the ability to remove trackers tacked on the URL; firefox, brave, duckduckgo, etc.

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Yes. It was a book first, but multiple movies were created afterwards.

I believe I have tightened up my OS security, it is now just the apps I have to be concerned with. Although :duck: :duck:Go does a good job so I guess I am okay. I just want to reduce traffic.

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On iOS once you block trackers on OS level it applies a global lock on all the apps. You can unlock them individually if you want, can’t fathom who would though :grin:

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It tracks even with opting out of data sharing. I use the DuckDuckGo app tracking protection and Braze and Google Analytics have been in use since I enabled the app tracking protection in 2022

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Must be diifferent on Android as @nswint mentions.

I just try to reduce traffic. Been using DDG for VPN and Tracker Blocking (TB).

On my home PC, I block even more, down to the host table.

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Ah, that’s a fun one. I once added a line to the default Windows hosts file and copied that across the network to my boss’s boss’s (at the time) office PC. The next time he fired up Internet Explorer, the home page that loaded was not what he expected. :grin:

2024-11-15T23:16:41Z Edit: I did that right before I left for lunch that day, too. I had a fun voicemail waiting for me when I got back to my office that afternoon. :laughing:

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Hope you still had a job. :grinning:

All of my bosses lacked a sense of humor, unfortunately.

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Oh, yeah. I wouldn’t have done that if I thought it would have any long-term adverse effect, but it was funny (to me), easy to execute, easily reversible, and didn’t affect any mission-critical functions. That guy was actually a friend, good natured, and a fun guy to prank, even if he was a superior in the organization. I’d known him a long time already when I pulled that one. I just wish I could’ve been there to see his reaction. :grin:

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I think that is a prerequisite for the job :rofl:

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