{"id":925415,"date":"2025-04-25T10:54:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T05:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=925415"},"modified":"2025-04-25T10:54:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T05:24:30","slug":"we-dont-push-spam-or-track-claims-zerodha-ceo-nithin-kamath-as-he-calls-other-apps-unusable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/25\/we-dont-push-spam-or-track-claims-zerodha-ceo-nithin-kamath-as-he-calls-other-apps-unusable\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We don\u2019t push, spam or track\u2019, claims Zerodha CEO Nithin Kamath as he calls other apps \u2018unusable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zerodha CEO and founder Nithin Kamath slammed the pervasive nature of \u2018most apps today\u2019 for harvesting users\u2019 data without consent. Taking to microblogging platform X, Kamath wrote \u201cMost apps today have become unusable. They bombard users with irritating notifications, spam messages, and dark patterns, and many are downright scammy.\u201d In the post, he also highlighted how some of these apps track usage across other apps. \u201cWhat&#8217;s truly disturbing is that some apps track usage not just within their own environment but across other apps too. This means your most personal data is being harvested without your consent and sold to companies for shady targeting purposes,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Kamath also emphasized how the Zerodha app is \u2018different\u2019 from most apps. He claims that Zerodha only requests \u201capp permissions that are genuinely necessary for functionality.\u201d He further stated \u201cWe don&#8217;t send unnecessary push notifications, messages, or emails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zerodha CEO and founder Nithin Kamath slammed the pervasive nature of \u2018most apps today\u2019 for harvesting users\u2019 data without consent. Taking to microblogging platform X, Kamath wrote \u201cMost apps today have become unusable. They bombard users with irritating notifications, spam messages, and dark patterns, and many are downright scammy.\u201d In the post, he also highlighted how some of these apps track usage across other apps. \u201cWhat&#8217;s truly disturbing is that some apps track usage not just within their own environment but across other apps too. This means your most personal data is being harvested without your consent and sold to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}