Today I installed the Raccoon for Lemmy app. The app itself does not contain trackers or extra permissions.
However, after I clicked on the icon of the installed application, my firewall immediately showed the presence of the appbrain.com tracker.
In other applications for Lemmy, the firewall also displayed many blocked trackers.
I may be wrong since I am not a programmer, but I think that the trackers are loaded along with links to external news sites.
Is it really impossible to come up with protective mechanisms that would prevent trackers from leaking into Lemmy?
I had a quick look at the site and that doesn’t seem to be the case. The browser on my PC doesn’t open any connections to appbrain.
It’s strange.
Maybe try a different Non-Lemmy website and see if it does that every time? And then try Lemmy again…
i wrote above that I went to the Mastodon instance and there were no trackers there.