@atomicpoet

Another interesting Reddit fact: There were third-party apps for YEARS before there was an official app.

And most of them are still better than the official app. For reasons that might surprise you.

Just one example: if you download the newest version of the DuckDuckGo browser app for Android, it has a beta feature that will block attempts by apps to send data to a list of third-party tracking companies.

So far it has blocked 22,416 attempts to send my unique identifier, city, zip code, country, email, IP address, device brand and model, OS version, screen density and resolution, and more to Branch Metrics by the official app. And that number has gone up by 2000 in the time it has taken to type this paragraph. I've only had blocking turned on for a few hours.

So far my Reddit is Fun app has not tried to track me once.

For comparison, the most times any other app has tried to track me is 185, from the Fandango app. Most apps, if they track at all, are in the single digits.