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These are the privacy permissions that you grant for Meta's new twitter competitor (yiffit.net)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] bitbybit 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can you share which one? I'd like to clean my phone up a bit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm using AdGuard. It does cost me about US$30 a year, but it's worth it to me. In the last week, it's stopped an estimated 192,085 ads and trackers saving me an estimated 2.1 GB of data.

It does occasionally block things that I don't want blocked, but it's easy to fix: you can either temporarily disable protection by tapping the notification in your, well, notifications, or you can use its Assistant feature to quickly find the thing that shouldn't have been blocked in the log and add an exception.