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>without [...] tracking

of the ios apps they listed:

apollo: has anonymous analytics

narwhal: has "Usage Data Advertising Data" under "Data Used to Track You" and "Data Linked to You", has anonymous analytics/usage/crash logs, and uses your device id

not exactly escaping much tracking here.

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Apollo can have analytics disabled. Any 3rd party client defeats ad engagement tracking. You can curl their API yourself and you have defeated tracking. If the client isn't serving ads, like Apollo and Tweetbot, there isn't any engagement to track. It's limited to what you interact with while logged in. This is how every service works. The analytics for 3rd party clients are purely for the developer to improve their app, they don't care about what you do on it, that information isn't relevant to building a 3rd party client.

Security/Privacy all depends on your threat model and what compromises you are willing to make.

Can you please explain how to turn off Apollo analytics? Thanks.

Looking at the privacy policy, i only noticed "anonymous crash reporting and analytics".

That's easily switched off via Settings > About > Crash Reporting & Analytics.

Edit: looking at the explanation below the On/Off switch, it seems this does provide analytics - "most commonly used features". So, turn it off...

That was very helpful; thanks.

Personally I use old.reddit.com with an AD blocker. Surprisingly this article doesn’t mention it

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