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Ask HN: How much data do mobile analytics frameworks collect?

3 points| frenger | 12 years ago

Exactly how much data do mobile-analytic frameworks (such as Flurry etc) collect?

As a mobile app developer I'm often asked to add these opaque frameworks to my projects but, not wanting to be Part Of The Problem, I'm curious how much data (beyond the specific metrics you can tell it to track) they collect.

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firefoxNX11|12 years ago

Checkout Flurry's Privacy Policy http://www.flurry.com/privacy-policy.html "The data collected by the agent may include.." Based on this the data sent to flurry's servers should not be that much. They should be also optimizing the size of data sent. Ofcourse you can always watch the data being sent using Charles to get a sense of the size of the payload.