In the few short hours since I started using #Threads, #DuckDuckGo has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like “headphone status” and “screen density.”

  • onlyanegg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5212·
    1 year ago

    A lot of that stuff is pretty standard if you’re doing logging and metrics on your service (which you should if you want to resolve outages). From the IP address and user agent you get rough location, os info, and network info. A few other things can be used for optimization (faster load times), and a Meta-scale, I wouldn’t be surprised if they do that.