Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location
Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location
Short of deleting the offending apps and not using them, how can you protect yourself from the data collection of the app?
Protective DNS, when set up with a DNS provider that blocks known ad / tracking domains, would help with that. NextDNS, Control-D, and Mullvad all offer this service, for example.
Mullvad VPN is best one stop shop to get started but the process is so much more than getting a VPN.
A lot of ia behavioural though, hygiene
Protonvpn also blocks ads, trackers, malware. With some of my apps needing google play services, I get trackers block constantly on my grapheneos phone.
What others said and give permissions on a "need to know basis"
