Get TrackerControl from the f-droid store. You get to see what the app reaches out to, via an internal VPN to capture traffic. And it let’s you block things in a granular fashion
Don’t use the Google playstore version, as Google forced them to make it a view only tool and not a blocking tool.
One installed it shows as TC in the app names
Looking at their repo I’d advise against it as the app is primarily AI coded.
Every app said something like “does not sell any user data to third parties and data brokers” but not that they do not provide it. They may give it freely (to authorities, for example) whether allowed to or not. They may give it in exchange for something other than money.
The phrasing has that excessive specificity of someone who follows the letter of the law but delights in loopholes.
I have reached the point where I regularly leave my phone at home, in the car, at a friend’s for a bit, etc. And that’s even though I use grapheneOS.
I don’t use wearables, I use web tools instead of apps whenever possible, and use random vpn locations on my other systems. But not everyone can do that, and these loopholers are taking far too much advantage.
The Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner of Canada declined an interview, but a spokesperson said Marketplace’s findings raise “a number of concerns.”
Ha LoL, oups. Haha. We didn’t do our job there, did we
