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Apps doing year wrapped gives you a hint on how are you being tracked. There is probably a legal issue in there somewhere like data retention. (self.showerthoughts)
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Spotify wrapped started this trend seems other apps are following through. Seeing a summary of things you did with there app. Kind of gives you a hint how much other things are being tracked.

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[–] grue 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The only app I have that does such a thing does it because it's deliberately gamified to help you build a good habit and tracking/summarizing your achievements for that year. IMO any other kind of app doing that is a gigantic red flag and you ought to delete it and find a replacement in the F-Droid repository (which consists entirely of Free Software that is much less likely to contain those sorts of dark patterns and other antifeatures) instead.