privacy

The apps on your phone can see what other apps you've installed.

This means your banking app knows every single bitcoin related app you've installed, and a your closedsource/bigtech apps can fingerprint you just by the list of your installed apps. They can, and probably are, snitching to gov what you've got installed on your phone.

This is why you should have a compartmentalization strategy (e.g. using multiple user profiles on Android), and avoid using closedsource apps as much as you can.

Scrolling is the new smoking.

~ /chelseafc • /privacy • /india