Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the thousands of apps hijacked to spy on your location A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes. 🔗 www.404media.co/candy-crush-... - ThreadSky

404media.co • 73 days ago

Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the thousands of apps hijacked to spy on your location

A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes.

🔗 https://www.404media.co/candy-crush-tinder-myfitnesspal-see-the-thousands-of-apps-hijacked-to-spy-on-your-location/

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404media.co•73 days ago

We have a partnership with @wired.com you can read their version here:

🔗 https://www.wired.com/story/gravy-location-data-app-leak-rtb/

supergoofnz.bsky.social•72 days ago

Thanks for this link. I can't read your website because white text on a black background is migraine-inducing for those of us with astigmatism. Sometimes highlighting the text makes it easier to read, but not when the highlight is fluorescent green!

glow-mouse.bsky.social•72 days ago

glow-mouse.bsky.social•72 days ago

There’s a button on every 404 Media page to turn it to light mode, which is black text on a white background.

404media.co•72 days ago

Yeah, thank you for replying before I got to this. Busy day here.

Please change at the bottom

404media.co•72 days ago

Sorry top!

supergoofnz.bsky.social•71 days ago

Thanks for that!

walkerwest.bsky.social•73 days ago

Long list. Somebody needs to make an app that tells you if you have any of these apps on your phone.

depression.bsky.social•73 days ago

I mean, you could just look up every, I bet it's not that many. And if you have 300+ apps, just look up the ones you use the most.

justinm.one•73 days ago

3000+ apps (and this is just a sample of what they have)
https://gist.github.com/fs0c131y/f498b21cba9ee23956fc7d7629262e9d

justinm.one•73 days ago

It's basically at the level of "if you've used a smartphone from Google or Apple, your location has been tracked"

iconoclast88.bsky.social•73 days ago

People give me odd looks when I say “I don’t have that app”. It’s genuinely cause my phone is old and has limited data, but it doesn’t hurt that give *some* of my data away less easily.

raptornx01.bsky.social•72 days ago

wait, you're telling me that ADs are actually evil and will either result in your device getting infecteds or all your data stolen and sold?

You don't say?

almost like they shouldn't be preventing people from using adblockers.