Wordle players could be unintentionally sharing data to ad companies amid claims the New York Times (NYT) "secretly filled" the game with ad tracking software. pic.twitter.com/HbrkF5o0eh — Ben Adida (@benadida) February 16, 2022GameCentral accused the NYT of "adding trackers from both the main New York Times website and ones that send your data to third party companies such as Google and Oracle." In response to the article's claims, a NYT spokesperson said the Wordle game "has the same privacy rules as other Times properties" and "tracks less" data than the industry standard. The NYT told Newsquest: "Wordle, which is now hosted on The Times's domain, has the same privacy rules as other Times properties, including our other games. New York Times and WordleThe popular online game, originally hosted on powerlanguage.co.uk, switched to the NYT website on February 11, 2022.

Source: The Times February 19, 2022 16:23 UTC