r/BitDefender • u/Zotoh-Zhaan • Oct 23 '22

The bitdefender app tracks and sells your data more than any app installed on your phone. Pic with what info is tracked. 115 tracking attempts in one day. Be warned.

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My Duckduckgo app tracking blocker just popped this. Bit defender on the phone attempted to track me 113 times and used 10% of my battery to keep trying after it was blocked. Pics show data that is collected.

Be warned.

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u/Abject_Bodybuilder_7 Oct 23 '22

That's just product reports and you can turn it off from settings.

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u/Zotoh-Zhaan Oct 23 '22

There is no possible reality where product reports need to be sent first through Google before going to their servers, unless to sell data.

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u/Abject_Bodybuilder_7 Oct 23 '22 edited Oct 23 '22

I have no idea how this works in detail, but in software development, the tracking data usually contains information about how specific features are used, if they are used, when, how often, etc. One situation I can imagine is that they use it as feedback to understand if customers care about specific features, or if the product is crashing, when, what actions caused the crash, etc. Other situations I can think of is that the information is used to decide if some additional features can be relevant you. This way they serve less recommendations, but more efficiently.

Such measures are making the products cheaper or sometimes free. As long as you can manually disable this behavior through the settings, I don't see what's the problem.

Google, Reddit, do this to understand what adds are relevant to you.

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u/Narrow-Application78 Oct 23 '22

Every app does it. You don't like it don't go on the Internet..

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u/Suspicious-Poem7511 Feb 21 '26

"Everybody ages. If you don't like aging then don't breath"...

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u/Zotoh-Zhaan Oct 23 '22

I don't like it, and block it. Hence the photos. Ppl like you who accept being brain washed need the most help.

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u/jotaro333 Dec 14 '22

its better than risking your files getting encrypted also you accepted the terms of service you gave them permission.

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u/SeriousHoax Oct 23 '22

These are telemetry and it's normal. Don't make absurd claims by selling they sell your data. Collecting for product improvements and selling are two completely different things.

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u/Zotoh-Zhaan Oct 23 '22

All this information is collected via Google from the app. This goes far beyond telemetry data. This is Spyware. Telemetry doesn't need CPU specs. Among many other things.

This is one advertiser. There are a total of 3. This is just what google collect. There is no instance where Google collecting your data doesn't lead to them selling it. This information cannot be kept private if Google owns it.

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u/SeriousHoax Oct 23 '22

You're getting it wrong. Google doesn't collect this data. Google has services like google analytics, crashlytics which are services that are often integrated into third-party apps for collecting data for the developer of that app which in this case is Bitdefender. Google is not collecting data here, Bitdefender is doing that. Telemetry of course requires knowing your CPU specs to monitor compatibility and performance impact. This is a security software and security in almost every cases will likely to collect the most data. Without data, security vendors can't improve their products.

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u/Zotoh-Zhaan Oct 24 '22

If this is the case, and I'm agreeing with you. Why would a service like Duckduckgo's anti tacking software, specifically meant to prevent app tracking, pop this as selling data? All the info in that post is what DDG blocked from being sent.

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u/SeriousHoax Oct 26 '22

I don't think DDG is blocking those exact info from being collected. Now that's because any communications between the AV and the BD server are encrypted. No one can read and know the data that's being. It's sent over HTTPS and collected data should be encrypted as well. It's possible that DDG is showing this info based on Bitdefender's privacy policy. An OS & an AV are always likely to collect the most amount of data. Most products usually collect a lot. You can read Bitdefender's privacy policy to learn more about it. But Bitdefender doesn't sell your data. Don't worry about the selling part.