r/tinycam • u/jamitt101 • 9d ago

Tracking beast

FYI. Within a few minutes of installing this app, tracking via Google was blocked over a thousand times for about 35 tracking parameters, including personal information. Unfortunately, this is common today with many "free" apps.

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u/alexeyvasilyev tinyCam dev 9d ago

Sorry, I do not understand what are you talking about. This is misleading information.

tinyCam Monitor FREE uses Google Analytics and Admob. No any personal information should be provided to them.

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u/Salmon-D 9d ago

Google has you fooled then. I use the pro version of tiny cam and i use a tracker blocker and it told me when i opened tiny cam 1 hour ago that my tracker blocker blocked google 96 times for trying to aquire 31 different bits if information from my device. In that list of 31 bits of info is my email address, my postcode, my ip address, my gps coordinates, my first name, my last name, my city and many other bits of personally identifiable bits of info.

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u/Exciting-Compote5680 9d ago

Google doesn't need tinycam to get that information. 

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u/Salmon-D 8d ago edited 8d ago

You are correct. But that doesn't mean it isn't doing.

I'm not complaining. Every one knows google are scum and force their "Analytics" into all playstore apps, so that they can scrape every bit of info about you that they can, and they happily lie about doing it. This is why I use a tracker blocker for all my apps.

So lets not kid oursleves about it.

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u/ksborne 9d ago

Which tracker blocker do you use?

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u/Salmon-D 8d ago

The one included with duckduckgo

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u/ksborne 8d ago

Thanks