I might have misunderstood this but is Android really trying to push this as tracking as a privacy upgrade, simply because it let’s us choose which of our interests we want advertisers to have access to?

  • Mark
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    24 months ago

    Their content blocking seems to run on a cloud service that you connect to via their app but it looks like it works the same for the end user.

    • @[email protected]
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      It’s pretty multifaceted. I’ve got a half dozen on-device blocklists enabled, along with some app-specific filters.

      Due to some Android quirk I’ve also been unable to use their DNS