What constitutes Usage Data. Is it sharing the posts I view, communities I subscribe to etc?

Does paying for a premium version stop this data being collected?

  • Tangent5280@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The exact same for me, and I had just made a new account to use with sync for lemmy - logged in via sync, then read the privacy policy, logged out, and closed the app. I was crushed because now I couldn’t even use the cool username I signed up with anywhere else either because now the admachines already knew it and probably already attached it to my device ID.

    • Stumblinbear@pawb.social
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      1 year ago

      GA collects very limited information by default. You have to go pretty far out of your way to give Google usernames, posts, etc for ad purposes. It’s likely the only thing they received was a device identifier generated specifically for the new install of the app. You’re fine.

    • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.world
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      1 year ago

      You most likely can use the account, unless the author is intentionally doing something shady, Google doesn’t know your username from this interaction.

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        1 year ago

        Google doesn’t know the username of someone logged in? I thought that might be the first piece of data that Google picks up.

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            1 year ago

            That makes sense. And if app devs aren’t really enthusiastic about having ads trackers, I suppose they’ll also want to do the bare minimum for them.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah that’s the shitty thing about interacting with these corporate spying services, they’re very good at invading your privacy and making connections to break your anonymity.