I am wondering what it is and what it does. Does it track me and target ads at me? What does it do? What is it?
Gnome i assume?
Tracker is an efficient search engine and triplestore for desktop, embedded and mobile.
You can read more what uses this, it’s multiple programs / parts of Gnome DE:
https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/tracker/overview/
Tracker Miners, a set of daemons which crawl the filesystem and extract metadata from many types of file to provide a system-wide search service.
Some smart-@ss decided to name it like that… 
So GNOME has another name? tracker-miners?
It is a project under the gnome umbrella. Specifically, it is a search engine/indexer.
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Please read the link 
Although i like your version 
So its the thing responsible for the “Search” button in the Overview?
You can read more what uses this, it’s multiple programs / parts of Gnome DE:
https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/tracker/overview/
Tracker Miners, a set of daemons which crawl the filesystem and extract metadata from many types of file to provide a system-wide search service.
Got it. Names can be confusing sometimes.
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I guess the only less intelligent way to name a deamon would be “virus”.
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