ElPussyKangarooThis gives Google LESS access to your data! - YouTube
I figure if I lurk here someone will come along and breakdown whether this is legit to install or not
guyrocketHowse bout you try it and let us all know if your phone gets hot?
Louis Rossmann is a respectable person in the open source/right to repair arena
Right on, that helps to know, thank you
It is if you don’t care about your privacy. I downloaded it, scanned it with exodus and deleted it afterwards.
I didn’t expect much considering he works for this company and this cluck baity post is a paid advertisement.
Damn. I appreciate that you did that leg work for the rest of us
Its no work, it only takes a second. Download Googles classyshark app. The fdroid version contains the embedded exodusprivacy database.
Whenever you install a new app scan it with classyshark and you will instantly know if the app will be tracking you or not.
This way you don’t have to believe strangers on the internet: trust but verify for yourself.
From reading other posts it sounds like it is only for crash reporting and that the user has to click to provide the report into he event of a crash. It also appears to be documented in their policy docs so it’s not exactly like it’s anything underhanded.
If the user doesn’t trust that their data will be safe, couldn’t the domain attached to the tracker found by Classyshark be blocked using something like NextDNS or RethinkDNS to prevent any data from connecting to said domain?
I tried it on my device… Works great!
But it’s just a Voice to Text utility at the moment, so only where there’s a mic icon for said VTT applications. But they’re working on integration with open source keyboards and also suggested the possibility that they’d make one of their own keyboards.