That’s kind of what I was wondering, I figured this as well as a way to track that it is at least sending data at unusual times. Someone else in this thread explained that actually determining what that data is would be difficult yeah: https://lemmy.world/post/48510943/24408747
I don’t know enough about system security or forensics to evaluate this, but it does make sense based on what I know.
The consensus so far seems to be that they don’t collect as much data as people think, partly because they can’t process all of it, and partly because educated guesses are good enough to target ads often enough.
That’s kind of what I was wondering, I figured this as well as a way to track that it is at least sending data at unusual times. Someone else in this thread explained that actually determining what that data is would be difficult yeah: https://lemmy.world/post/48510943/24408747
I don’t know enough about system security or forensics to evaluate this, but it does make sense based on what I know.
The consensus so far seems to be that they don’t collect as much data as people think, partly because they can’t process all of it, and partly because educated guesses are good enough to target ads often enough.