In-reply-to » T-Mobile Has Started Selling Your App Data To Advertisers T-Mobile has just officially launched its new ad platform, known as T-Mobile Advertising Solutions. That innocuous name hides a rather sketchy business model -- it aggregates your mobile application usage and sells it to advertisers. Android Police reports: The specifics of the program will sound familiar to anyone who has followed the ebb and flow of browser t ... ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Selling data should, but not advertising itself. If it was, most free to use sites/apps would have to go with some kind of a paid subscription of beg for donations even more agressively.

I know it’s a bit hypothetical coming from me, with my relatively agressive adblocking settings, but I was fine with ads, before they became the intrusive privacy nightmare, that they are now.

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