I mainly use obtainium and use aurora store for remaining apps I can’t get that way. I noticed that aurora store has a privacy scan function that tells you if there are trackers in the apps. Is this accurate? It is currently saying that…
Element X
Filen
Proton Calendar
Proton Mail
Proton Drive
Proton Pass
Tor Browser
…all have at least one tracker. Tor is the only one I can find info about. They claim the tracking code is “left over” since it is based on firefox, but that they claim it is turned off. Does anyone know about these other apps?
My concern is just figuring out if these apps really do have trackers, which seems in opposition to their stated privacy goals. And if they do have trackers, seeing if anyone knows exactly what they are tracking.
There is nothing to worry about here with any “tracker” it may show it has. First, it depends on what it is and what it is doing. Second, there are many false positives too.
If there ever was an actual issue, it would be made a much bigger deal than it is and be made clear with the recommendation details about the app PG provides.
Firebase is only partially open source, most of it is proprietary, and it goes to Google.
Sentry is open source and can be either self hosted or not.
But the apps can choose how much they send through them.
You can also check the settings of each to see if they let you disable analytics.
True. Reporting tools can (and do) get very invasive, including screen recording?
Need for crash reports is acute though. I wish I could use Crashlytics / Sentry (a one-day task) for Rethink instead of spending weeks building out a custom, poor man’s reporting infrastructure, like we just did
