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overall i'm impressed with bluesky, BUT i have some privacy concerns i'd like to see the team address. these are crucial if bluesky is to live up to its goal & stated values. (THREAD INCOMING 🧵) to start, bluesky contains tracking from companies like sentry & statsig, with no way to opt out.

the screenshots from above are via ublock origin's logger, but this tracking can also be seen directly in bluesky's source code... a couple examples below github.com/bluesky-soci... github.com/bluesky-soci...

more examples of data collected: there's more as well, you can check it out for yourself here: raw.githubusercontent.com/bluesky-soci... as i stated at the beginning, there is no way to opt out of this data collection.

to add insult to injury, bluesky's main website (bsky.social) includes tracking from GOOGLE, arguably one of the most privacy invasive companies out there. no introduction needed.

to be clear, does this mean bluesky is as bad for privacy as x/twitter, threads, etc? no, of course not. but let's compare this to a platform like mastodon. both mastodon's website (joinmastodon.org) AND their official instance (mastodon.social) have no tracking or data collection of any kind.