[HN Gopher] What's the Deal with Sensor Tower?
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       What's the Deal with Sensor Tower?
        
       Author : CharlesW
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2023-08-06 20:40 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | WarOnPrivacy wrote:
       | recap: News stories about platform use have been sourcing Sensor
       | Tower for their bylines. ST sells data about platform usage.
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       | That data is harvested (without explicit user consent) by mobile
       | apps that don't have anything to do with analytics or data
       | collection. eg: screen time managers, games, vpn, etc. Some of
       | the sites for these apps push users away from the store and into
       | sideloading.
       | 
       | This seems fairly sketchy. Further, it's disappointing that news
       | orgs aren't strongly vetting the integrity of companies providing
       | the data for their news stories. Depressing even.
        
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