this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2026
36 points (100.0% liked)

Open Source

49656 readers
611 users here now

All about open source! Feel free to ask questions, and share news, and interesting stuff!

Useful Links

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon from opensource.org, but we are not affiliated with them.

founded 7 years ago
MODERATORS
Cloak@lemmy.ml
kevincox@lemmy.ml
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml
Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml
36
Droidify needs to update descriptions on apps when they obtain trackers. (lemmus.org)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Ripley_Tripley@lemmus.org to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I have been noticing an increasing amount of apps on droidify, that are not supposed to have trackers, obtain trackers after being updated. I dont know if its amongst the developers themselves or Google's forced pushed on getting apps approved through their store, but it should be put in the description of these apps before they are downloaded that trackers have been added.

For example, these are some apps that are NOT supposed to have trackers, in fact do have trackers:

Or

Some of these apps, my phone dosent pick up that it contains trackers unless i look at Tracker Control

  1. Blorp (Lemmy)
  2. FossWallet (this one just happened, this wallet NEVER had trackers until a recent update)
  3. All of the browser apps on drodify (even the private ones) - the only one that admits to have anti-privacy features is Tor.
  4. Rush (Music Lyrics App) (description has been updated to show it has trackers) i dont understand why a music lyrics app has trackers on it
  5. PipePipe (viewed on tracker control)
  6. Tuta(viewed on tracker control)
  7. Droidify (yes, droidify itself contains trackers)
  8. AntennaPod(viewed on tracker control)
top 6 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] RodgeGrabTheCat@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Exodus is showing no trackers for Tuta and Droidify. 1 for Pipepipe which is used for crash reporting. I haven't check any of the other listed.

I've used Nextdns once in a while and nothing appears for these apps.

[–] Ripley_Tripley@lemmus.org 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)


This is what im getting from Tracker Control. For Tuta its blocked, for Droidify theres like 4 trackers allowed (i dont know if blocking them would mess with the function of the app). And 2 for PipePipe cause it is using a google app. Above PipePipe is Blorp, it has three, 2 from Google and one from Fastly.

[–] paf@jlai.lu 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Just wondering if request you see blocked on tracker control could only be because they updated the block list? Probably best to open an issue (github or else) with one of those apps to find the truth.

[–] Ripley_Tripley@lemmus.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

And for tracker control, the ads that are allowed to go through, if i block them some of these apps would straight up break and not work.

[–] Ripley_Tripley@lemmus.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Im gonna be honest, i cant stand going on Github. Its difficult to read anything on there, since im not in that space to understand that language.

[–] LemUrun@pawb.social 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Like apps on Play Store and App Store: first release doesn't contain ads, but second release adds them. ¯\(ツ)/¯