My antivirus software shows that there is a tracker present in the Creator- on principle I object to this. What do you want to know - if we’re interested in watches?
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Curious about the reaction of Facer 
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I have a seperate profile for making Square Watchfaces. I run it on a seperate browser. When I sync a face to my Square Watch it also turns up no my GW5. I assume that the two Profiles are well know to be the same person by Marvin.
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Only one? Did your AV name it?
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One is one too many! No AVG didn’t name the tracker.
From the way your post is composed it seems that you either have or expected more trackers.
A site can use cookies to improve operation so they can be useful even though 99% of them are for advertising purposes. But trackers have only one reason - to track.
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Do you use the free version of AVG?
Edit: Sorry, I did not answer your question. My security is picking up more than 1.
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Yes I use the free version of AVG…
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AVG uses heuristics so what they are reporting may not always be bad - just a bunch of symptoms.
The regulars here have been mentioning issues with Creator. It may be that is a reason for tracking what Creator is doing. That would be constructive and not necessarily a bad thing. ALL of us are anxious to see Creator’s bugs fixed.
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I am sure I’m being tracked since I am using the Microsoft Edge web browser on Windows. But they are not getting “useful” information from me. First Rusty Williams is not my real name. Secondly, I only use this browser for watchface related things. I use Chrome for my personal Facebook and Firefox for my normal web browsing. If I am researching or doing things where I don’t want tracked, I use the Dissenter web browser in a private window. No matter who is tracking me, they are getting an incomplete picture of what is really happening.
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@Linlay Maybe Facer could clarify that the multiple trackers you mention are on the side of the good and not to annoy the users. GDPR requires software only to collect data that is required for the purpose of the software and not for other reasons.
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I think staff is probably extremely busy trying to fix the bugs that have been reported after recent changes . Therefore, I doubt that you would get a quick answer to your suggestion. I also doubt that they would do anything that violates GDPR.
Maybe an option for you would be to install a free browser extension like Malwarebytes Browser Guard or Ghostery that lists the trackers by name so you can research them and/or post on the related security forums to ask. When it comes to security, a layered approach might be good, in order not to rely on everything by the same company.
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I always have two separate privacy guards running in the background because I’m quite exposed because I have to check tons of websites (I’m a proofreader, reality-checking URLs is part of my work profile). They are silent for the facer community site. I’m certainly not crying “false alarm”, mind. But I can check a bit deeper. No fan of being watched for commercial purposes meself, me.
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A “belt and suspenders” can be a good thing (unless it is incompatible AV’s).
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Trackers themselves aren’t inherently bad, and sometimes necessary for, example, an undo list in a web based designer. It’s 3rd party advertising trackers that are bad. I’m going to coin 3PATs.
Looking at the creator I see 2 sets using the Disconnect plugin. There may be more it does not see and one may be flagged false positive in AVG. I stopped using that one years ago though was a strong fan for a long, long time. Anyway, The Disconnect plugin:
I’m going to guess the 2nd two are all about managing the content and history and the first is what AVG is currently objecting to, if what I am seeing is accurate.
If there is another, sneakier one that the plugin cannot see then yes, that might be it but Bitdefender false flags sites for me sometimes too.
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Good move. I know many who did the same.
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I’m in that group of former AVG users. It was slowing down my computer so badly I was about to buy a new computer. Started using Windows Defender and got rid of AVG and haven’t had a problem since.
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AVG was quite good many years ago. They kept merging with other companies and became involved in some controversy. Supposedly cleaned it up, but many people had moved on to Windows Defender>Microsoft Anti-Virus. I feel that Microsoft + Malwarebytes gives me the best of all worlds for AV.
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I have MS Defender, the free version of Malware Bytes and also the old ClamWin Antivirus on my computer. Defender actively scans and the other two are on demand scanning. I manually scan every file I download off the internet.
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ClamWin!! Oh gosh, I had forgotten about that one. Ewido was another from back in the day. It always seemed like an odd name to me. I think Ewido may have been one that merged with AVG. I was thinking about all the companies that were sold, merged and somewhere along the way lost their luster/popularity/whatever. I hope that doesn’t happen to Facer.
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I use Windows built in as Windows Defender does run alongside many including BitDefender.
They had a full free offering, then went paid only but now are back on the free extra wall market if you are ok with closing a popup once a week.
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