Question for everyone: What do you use to limit the tracking of \"forced\" apps?<\/p>
- The train company sends my data to Tiktok (ticket needs to be shown in-app)
- Signal to Google
- TooGoodToGo to data brokers (can't order leftover food via their website anymore)
- etc.<\/p>
How to block this?<\/p>
I'm hoping for a better alternative to TrackerControl since it's buggy (legit connections hang often) and makes that I can't ever use a VPN under any circumstance, but I'm at a loss for other options<\/p>
:BoostOK:<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-18:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/chaos.social\/users\/luc\/statuses\/114636972633080478","object":{"id":"https:\/\/chaos.social\/users\/luc\/statuses\/114636972633080478","objectType":"note","content":"
Question for everyone: What do you use to limit the tracking of \"forced\" apps?<\/p>
- The train company sends my data to Tiktok (ticket needs to be shown in-app)
- Signal to Google
- TooGoodToGo to data brokers (can't order leftover food via their website anymore)
- etc.<\/p>
How to block this?<\/p>
I'm hoping for a better alternative to TrackerControl since it's buggy (legit connections hang often) and makes that I can't ever use a VPN under any circumstance, but I'm at a loss for other options<\/p>
:BoostOK:<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/chaos.social\/@luc\/114636972633080478","status_net":{"notice_id":null}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-06-06:objectType=thread:nonce=ce500c792c9f16d2","notice_info":{"local_id":"10121018","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-06-06T17:18:46+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/chaos.social\/@luc\/114636972633080478"},{"actor":{"id":"https:\/\/chaos.social\/users\/luc","displayName":"Luc","status_net":{"avatarLinks":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/244116-original-tmp20240220210704.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":400,"height":400},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/244116-96-20240220213557.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/244116-48-20240220213557.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":48,"height":48},{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/244116-24-20240220213557.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":24,"height":24}],"profile_info":{"local_id":"244116"}},"image":{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/avatar\/244116-96-20240220213557.webp","rel":"avatar","type":"image\/webp","width":96,"height":96},"objectType":"person","summary":"IT security, programming, privacy, global warming, OpenStreetMap, self-hosting, Factorio, OpenArena, space, science, measuring all the thingsEnglish preferred. Speaks Dutch and German, likes Toki Pona","url":"https:\/\/chaos.social\/@luc","portablecontacts_net":{"preferredUsername":"luc","displayName":"Luc","note":"IT security, programming, privacy, global warming, OpenStreetMap, self-hosting, Factorio, OpenArena, space, science, measuring all the thingsEnglish preferred. Speaks Dutch and German, likes Toki Pona"}},"content":"
I'll either have root xor GrapheneOS, in case any suggestions depend on that. Which phone I buy depends on whether @GrapheneOS<\/a> can be useful here<\/p> Btw, DNS blocking (e.g. hosts file) isn't a good option because:<\/p> - That can't be done per app, and some apps require access to Google APIs where others (like Signal) don't<\/p> - I assume many trackers will just fall back to IP addresses since it's trivial to do<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-10-18:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/chaos.social\/users\/luc\/statuses\/114637003160694031","object":{"id":"https:\/\/chaos.social\/users\/luc\/statuses\/114637003160694031","objectType":"note","content":"