• pHr34kY@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    You don’t even need the website. I just set the default search engine to DDG in my browser.

    A search app makes zero sense to me.

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      16 days ago

      The DDG app is pretty cool though. It has free app tracking protection.

      As a tangent, it’s kind of insane that the NPR app seems to always have like 10x tracking attempts vs tiktok.

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        16 days ago

        So much, this. My brokerage apps are my biggest offenders for phoning to unauthorized parties, makes me nervous as hell.

        I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, that I miss using Mullvad but that DDG supplanted them as my VPN of choice, just because there are other anti-tracking and adjacent security Services integrated into my life so seamlessly.

        Unrelated to DDG, if you sideload on Android I want to shill HARD for this FDroid package, called Hail, , which when powered with Shizuku can fully suspend apps selectively at will.

        So I identify any apps that like to phone home regularly, and just tell them to aggressively take naps until summoned, I feel like I only want to allow 10% of my apps to run to the background regularly. This app gives me a toggle for that, and DDG is my lamp light for selecting the most egregious offenders.

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          16 days ago

          Thanks for the recommendation, probably better than me just putting any app I haven’t used in the last week into deep sleep mode or whatever it’s called haha.

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        16 days ago

        Surely that doesn’t mean you have the NPR app installed, does it?.. 🤢