Originally published at: Helping ckbk Remove Ad Tracking - TidBITS
It pays to speak up. After being introduced to the ckbk cookbook service, Adam Engst expressed his disappointment in the app asking to track and was rewarded a few weeks later with an update that resolved the issue.
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Have you considered just disabling tracking all together, or are you using this more as a means to track the trackers? 
Precisely! I let apps ask if they can track me rather than just denying it so I can see how prevalent it is and which companies are engaging in it.
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Is your conclusion anything other than “everybody everywhere all the time”?
That’s what it seems like to me. Even my own personal blog tracks me because it’s hosted by Google’s blogger.com / blogspot.com service. 
Yes, actually. There are quite a few apps that ask to track, but it’s only a small percentage of all those that I have.
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A couple of years ago I started using some tracking blocking features in Firefox (Mac, not iOS) and soon ran into problems getting access to many web sites by things like unsolvable Captchas. I did some digging around and found that tracking results are being widely used in security systems, so if they don’t have any tracking data for you, you are considered a risk and likely to be blocked. At that point, I decided that blocking all or most tracking could cause more trouble than it was worth, although I do block some tracking, particularly location when not necessary (e.g. by banks).
I don’t use a smartphone, so I don’t know what’s going on with apps, but from what has been described so far, it looks lime many are asking for much more information than they need. I wonder how much they are used in security systems.