Yeah. At the time, when I looked at data usage by apps on my phone and saw it chewing through my data allocation, I naively put it down to extremely inefficient programming by app developers. (And that alone would be enough for me to delete the app) - but later when I read about apps like The Weather Channel tracking users, then I realized that this was what was going on instead.
Now, I periodically review the breakdown of data usage by app on my phone. Anything that uses more data than it should, I delete. Basically anything that uses more than my browser (the app I use most often) I will delete. This is not a complete guard against privacy-violating apps, but I figure that it at least will help me identify any big red flags.
Agreed...Therre is only one reason hey do that and we all know what that is.
Yeah. At the time, when I looked at data usage by apps on my phone and saw it chewing through my data allocation, I naively put it down to extremely inefficient programming by app developers. (And that alone would be enough for me to delete the app) - but later when I read about apps like The Weather Channel tracking users, then I realized that this was what was going on instead.
Now, I periodically review the breakdown of data usage by app on my phone. Anything that uses more data than it should, I delete. Basically anything that uses more than my browser (the app I use most often) I will delete. This is not a complete guard against privacy-violating apps, but I figure that it at least will help me identify any big red flags.