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Hiya folks, I have a few questions about blocking trackers. I've been running under lineageos for quite some time with a (mostly disabled) microg. Occasionally I still find it tempting/useful/necessary to install apps with trackers and try/hope to mitigate the tracking functionality. For example, transportr, öffi, and osmand have been flakey lately (may just be my fault/environment) but I've temporarily installed moovit, citymapper, and transit, which have 6-17+ trackers each. Using Warden/App Manager (https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AppWarden https://github.com/MuntashirAkon/AppManager), you can block/disable most of the trackers. Using blocking hosts files (in adaway for example) you can block some of the tracker functionality. Using trackercontrol (proxy) you can try to see if you neutered all of the trackers. Questions: 1) Do Warden and AppManager duplicate their functionality? (can I just use one of them?) 2) Do I need to go to the trouble of sniffing traffic if I want to make sure all unwanted traffic/tracking/advertising 3) Does an app repo or tool exist that sanitizes popular apps (removes the tracking payloads)? (I'm aware of Izzy) 4) Should I be asking this elsewhere like xda? 5) There are severe limitations introduced when doing things this way. Is there a better combination of tools/methods you would recommend? I realize that, in this use case, even just my search data will be used for tracking/profiling purposes so it isn't a good example. But I'm curious for all apps, not just navigation apps... Cheers, and thanks!
Hiya folks, I have a few questions about blocking trackers. I've been running under lineageos for quite some time with a (mostly disabled) microg. Occasionally I still find it tempting/useful/necessary to install apps with trackers and try/hope to mitigate the tracking functionality. For example, transportr, öffi, and osmand have been flakey lately (may just be my fault/environment) but I've temporarily installed moovit, citymapper, and transit, which have 6-17+ trackers each. Using Warden/App Manager (https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AppWarden https://github.com/MuntashirAkon/AppManager), you can block/disable most of the trackers. Using blocking hosts files (in adaway for example) you can block some of the tracker functionality. Using trackercontrol (proxy) you can try to see if you neutered all of the trackers. Questions: 1) Do Warden and AppManager duplicate their functionality? (can I just use one of them?) 2) Do I need to go to the trouble of sniffing traffic if I want to make sure all unwanted traffic/tracking/advertising 3) Does an app repo or tool exist that sanitizes popular apps (removes the tracking payloads)? (I'm aware of Izzy) 4) Should I be asking this elsewhere like xda? 5) There are severe limitations introduced when doing things this way. Is there a better combination of tools/methods you would recommend? I realize that, in this use case, even just my search data will be used for tracking/profiling purposes so it isn't a good example. But I'm curious for all apps, not just navigation apps... Cheers, and thanks!