This blog post from 2021 claims 5% of people block trackers, basing on their GA stats. https://cfthoughts.com/how-many-people-block-your-analytics-tracking-code-p522/
But is there some newer data? Not specialized to GA but to trackers in general?

Genauso wie der Osterhase seine Eier gut versteckt, könnt ihr auch systemweit Werbung und Tracker verschwinden lassen – ganz einfach mit wenigen Handgriffen für #Android und #iOS . Denn wie alte Schokoeier im Gras will die wirklich niemand finden.

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/fuer-anfaenger-bequeme-werbung-und-tracker-unter-ios-android-systemweit-verbannen/

#ICE Is Paying #Palantir $30 Million to Build ‘ImmigrationOS’ #Surveillance Platform

In a document published Thursday, ICE explained the functions that it expects Palantir to include in a prototype of a new program to give the agency “near real-time” data about people self-deporting.
#privacy #surveillance #tracking

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-palantir-immigrationos/

#Privacy on the Map: How States Are Fighting Location #Surveillance
#geolocation #tracking #gps

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/privacy-map-how-states-are-fighting-location-surveillance

If you’re into #collecting and #tracking your games, check out https://questlog.app.

Unlike generic tracking services, @questlog is built with love for #gamers, by a passionate #developer who truly understands what we want. It’s sleek, fast, and focused entirely on games, no clutter, no ads, no nonsense.

The developer is doing an amazing job bringing features that actually matter, listening to feedback, and keeping the experience smooth and satisfying.

Let the quest begin

Sometimes the internet is really funny - or scary.

The Chrome browser is one example.

While you believe you are browsing the web, Google is browsing you instead.

Check out Leah Elliott's comic on how Google's tracking works: https://contrachrome.com/comic/page01/

And check how to stop this tracking: https://tuta.com/blog/what-does-google-know-about-me

Trump Wants to Merge Government Data. Here Are 314 Things It Might Know About You.

Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/us/politics/trump-musk-data-access.html

What I like on #apple #safari #browser: transperancy ...

@mike I'm enjoying your podcast Dot Social.

Something I've been thinking about a lot recently is:

How are #bigtech going to ruin the #fediverse?

Could you do an episode wargaming how that might happen? I'm thinking #AI crawl bots #tracking and profiling us - that kind of thing.

#MetaBusinessTools
#Tracking

Landgericht Berlin II verpflichtet Meta in sechs Fällen unter anderem zur Auskunft, Löschung von Daten und Schadensersatz in Höhe von jeweils EUR 2.000

LG Berlin II, Urteile vom 04.04.2025, 39 O 56/24, 39 O 67/24, 39 O 57/24, 39 O 97/24, 39 O 218/24, 39 O 184/24

https://www.berlin.de/gerichte/presse/pressemitteilungen-der-ordentlichen-gerichtsbarkeit/2025/pressemitteilung.1549148.php

Schon krass: #LG zwingt mich als Nutzer eines seiner Fernsehgeräte zuzustimmen, dass sie mein komplettes Sehverhalten erfassen und an Dritte weitergeben. Wenn ich das nicht tue, darf ich auf diesem Gerät noch nicht mal Netflix starten - für das ich 20 Euro monatlich zahle.

Wie komme ich aus der Nummer raus ohne diesen Fernseher zu schrotten? Und gibt es einen Gerätehersteller, der das nicht auf die gleiche Weise macht...?
#smarttv #privacy #tracking #bigdata

EDIT: Ich habe eine Empfehlung bekommen (siehe Antworten), das guck ich mir beim nächsten Spaziergang mal an. Danke

App gesucht:

• für Android
• Aufzeichnung von zurückgelegten Wegen mit GPS
• Datei kann hinterher sinnvoll auf PC übertragen und der zurückgelegte Weg in OSM dargestellt werden
• optional: Route/Wegpunkte können hinterher korrigiert werden
• datenschutzfreundlich
• wird aktiv weiterentwickelt
• darf gern was kosten

Empfehlungen?

Something happens to me occasionally, and I don't know where to put it in the ridiculous - infuriating - preposterous feelingspace. It happened again today.

Backstory: I'm an email geek, who has been running mail servers for three decades, and who has written a lot of mail-handling software. I've worked as a consultant on email systems for companies large and small.

When you run your own mailservers, have deep experience with MTAs, and are a bit of a privacy nut, you might have a tendency to want to know exactly who does what with your email address when you give it to them. For most people, this desire is just a dream; it's not possible with their email system.

Thanks to a technique semi-related to #VERP - variable envelope return-path, a mailing list feature with the qmail MTA - it's possible for email geeks. Basically the idea is that you give a different email address to everyone you deal with, and keep track of who you gave it too. Then, when you receive email, you can tell from the address the email was delivered *to* - one of your many addresses - where they got your address from.

Example:

Say I own the `example.net` domain. I arrange for all email to that domain to come to me.

I decide to order something online from #CrappyTire (ask a Canadian). When the Crappy Tire website asks for my email address, I type in "crappytire@example.net".

1/x

Esoteric question time.

1. Coffee shop chains used to have plastic "rewards" cards for #tracking purchases/points.

2. They seem like they don't offer them new anymore and want you to install their mobile app instead.

3. But they still accept the plastic cards if you have one.

Q: Why can't I buy a secondhand physical card from anybody? There's seemingly no resale market even among #privacy geeks. I've looked. Seems like a golden opportunity to me....

T-Mobile Shows Users the Names, Pictures, and Exact Locations of Random #Children

On Tuesday, some #parents lost the ability to #track the locations of their children using a T-Mobile #tracking device and app and instead were shown the exact locations of random other children around the country, 404 Media has learned.
#tmobile #privacy #security #geolocation

https://www.404media.co/t-mobile-shows-users-the-names-pictures-and-exact-locations-of-random-children/