![App tracking: Why it's bad and how to stop it.](/blog/images/thumbnails/social-media.jpg)
2024-03-06
Whether you use Android or an iPhone, most apps track you - not just when you use the app, but oftentimes also silently in the background.
It does not matter if you are using games, weather, fitness or social apps,
it's likely that all of these applications on your smartphone or tablet send data to data brokers, or even to Google, Facebook and other tech giants.
While this shouldn’t be news to you, the scale of this massive data accumulation is quite scary. But you do not need to allow these apps to snoop out your personal life:
Here's how you can stop app tracking on your iPhone
and Android!