The dev is not tracking anything. Google ads is… and like the other comment said if you have Google Play on an android phone then you’re being tracked.

I’d wager most people complaining about sync also have a Gmail account or shop on Amazon, or watch YouTube, or a million other equally or more invasive stuff.

The trackers are from the ads. They go hand in hand so I think people mean both when they say ads. Ads tracking you is kinda a given. And if you pay to remove the ads the trackers never load either.

There shouldn’t be a loaded gun anywhere near a film set. That’s the problem, not him practicing his scene between camera rolls

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Just release them far away from any power lines

The modern world is the enemy of attention spans, that’s all there is to it I think

I’ll second this. Learned this a long time ago. Anything you think you need on w3c schools can be found elsewhere.

Is it just me or is lemmy-ui broken in 0.18.4 docker image? When I upgraded my instance, the UI was not loading properly.

You wouldn’t believe it, but people who live in Israel are called Israelis. Very suspicious indeed.

Are you not aware that “big sugar” is a massive offender of cherry picking data and funding studies that make their competition look bad? It’s a large contributor to the obesity problems of the Western world

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat

You’re the one speculating. You can analyze your network traffic to ensure it disabled, and as people have done and verified that it is disabled. Those are standard Google Ad trackers. Any app with ads has them, like Sync for Reddit did and Sync for Lemmy does.

I only heard of this recently… should I switch off Nova? What do I even switch to?

I’ve never used anything but Nova for years and years now.

Even with all that disabled there are still ghost profiles of you built. If you shop online at all you are building a fingerprint without the need of trackers.

Never fuck with a microwave, you’re asking to become the path of least resistance for that capacitor to unload through.

“enshittification” in every other post

Idk I’ve spent the last year doing what OP says and my youtube algorithm knows me so well I lose hours upon hours. It is like a firehose of all my hobbies. I don’t get any politics recommended to me at all, right or left.

I dislike it, so I joined a gym with a social aspect to it which keeps me accountable. And I love how I look now that I work out a lot, being comfortable shirtless in public like at a pool or beach and feeling confident in my body combined with the social aspect is enough to not mind dreading the workouts.

For anyone coming across this, remove seemed to work. Purging clears the “remove” status it looks like and other instances won’t know you removed it and keep federating data to you. At least that’s what it seems like was happening