Mobile apps illegally share your personal data

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  • Android

    DuckDuckGo Android App (by duckduckgo)

  • I use and love DuckDuckGo Android app! The pinned favorites, the tabs not accumulating forever like in Chrome, it's just great all around!

    But it's not as privacy-friendly as you'd think. For example all favorites and bookmarks favicons are routed through their server. Which would be nice as an option, but you can't opt out. They pinky-swear they don't log it, though.

    https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/527#issuecommen...

  • Matomo

    Empowering People Ethically with the leading open source alternative to Google Analytics that gives you full control over your data. Matomo lets you easily collect data from websites & apps and visualise this data and extract insights. Privacy is built-in. Liberating Web Analytics. Star us on Github? +1. And we love Pull Requests!

  • You can for example use analytics that aren't spyware, and hence don't even have to try to trick users giving "consent" to things they don't really want.

    Seriously: what share of people actually want their behavior to be tracked for ad companies to make more money?

    https://matomo.org/

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  • tracker-control-android

    TrackerControl Android: monitor and control trackers and ads.

  • with [0] you can disable network access by application.

    [0] https://github.com/TrackerControl/tracker-control-android

  • os-issue-tracker

    Issue tracker for GrapheneOS Android Open Source Project hardening work. Standalone projects like Auditor, AttestationServer and hardened_malloc have their own dedicated trackers.

  • Thanks, I should take a look. I've also been meaning to try DivestOS.

    I'm certainly not holding my breath on more GrapheneOS support, as so few people care. I'm not entirely sure it'd be the right fit for me anyway. I'm currently using a microg setup with lsposed so I can patch out some junk in modern apps (like Outlook trying to be device admin), and this kind of hooking is not something GrapheneOS is interested in (a feature request I opened a while back: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/284).

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