I Don't Use Twitter or Microsoft. My Logs Disagree

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11 points·TheIPW··5 comments

> Apps installed, not open, still reporting

They're running, just not in the foreground.

If you don't want that then you can also disallow it per app.

And please stop generating your comments.

> Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.

When making purchases online I relax my uMatrix policies (so the payment will go through) but I'm blown away by what's trying to load; I see CDNs for pinterest, tiktok, twitter, linkedin, etc, all wanting to run javascript on my checkout page despite having no visible logo or services. I leave these disabled and have never had a payment fail. But I do wonder what mechanism lands them there.

I’ve seen the same thing. You go to pay for something and suddenly half the internet wants to join the checkout process.

Most of it seems to be third-party scripts bundled in by payment providers, analytics, or “marketing” integrations the site owner probably didn’t even realise they enabled. It just accumulates.

The worrying bit is how normal it’s become. If you didn’t have uMatrix, you’d never even know it was happening.

On my jail broken XR I have a sniffing tool which caught me unsurprised to how many API's are in use to just open an app.

You open one app to check a weather report or football results, and suddenly your phone is trying to talk to half the internet! It really highlights why "passive" devices are never actually passive.

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