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Well, it’s including the „Microsoft App Center“ tracker. I have to block ||appcenter.ms^
Several other Lemmy Apps do not have any tracker.
Edit: turns out the request can be useful. See comments. Still strange to get from Microsoft.
I’d guess that’s because we use CodePush to do over the air updates, so you don’t have to wait for apple to approve a build.
Thank you for letting me know. :)
Just for more reference, there are options to enable analytics, but they are not installed in the app. That is a separate package that is not added as I don't feel comfortable receiving whatever they would send. It's probably harmless but I don't even want the hassle.
Appcenter does OTA push updates, dev is probably making a fast update system so they don't have to push updates to the various stores, the app was made in react native so appcenter is pretty standard for codepush OTA updates
good to know.
It’s used for updates not tracking
Are you sure it’s the app and not websites you visit through Lemmy or your instance tracking you? I’m not seeing any tracking on my end when just browsing.
Yes, I am sure. The App Store even say that some device ID are get shared with the App.
Device ID is just for push notifications.