Yves JeanrenaudFeb 23

I made an app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.pocketpc.nearbyglasses
Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby.

I hope it's useful for someone.

The app is now open source (AGPL-3.0), the app is free and rather simple
https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses

It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making. F-Droid is an option, will have to look into that

Show threadGeraldo Feb 24
@yjeanrenaud cool! Please consider publishing it on the F-Droid store, too.
Show threadF4GRX SébastienFeb 24
@mosquete @yjeanrenaud that would be nice, yes. having it in fdroid would guarantee it is both open source and without proprietary tracking services.
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@f4grx

You can easily check for trackers. This app doesn't have any, and it has fewer permissions than most other apps, too:

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/ch.pocketpc.nearbyglasses/latest/

@mosquete @yjeanrenaud

Report for ch.pocketpc.nearbyglasses 1.0.2

Known trackers, permissions and informations about this specific version of this application

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Show threadF4GRX SébastienFeb 24
@CppGuy @mosquete @yjeanrenaud thank you so much for having checked that. I should have done it myself. I just installed the apk and will play with this app.
Show threadYves JeanrenaudFeb 24
@f4grx thank you. I say so in the privacy statement, too. I know, companies lie a lot in those, but I don't 🙃or at least I try not to. Maybe I missed something. I'm no lawyer either
Show threadF4GRX SébastienFeb 24
@yjeanrenaud thats okay, no problems. I tried the app and ot scans very fast and emits a lot of logs when it sees nothing. May I suggest scanning slower and not displaying the scans when the rssi is below the threshold? That will save battery and cpu.
Show threadS38Feb 27

@CppGuy

Checked for known trackers, not checked for trackers.

@f4grx @mosquete @yjeanrenaud

Show threadYves JeanrenaudFeb 27

@sab38 @CppGuy @f4grx @mosquete
true. but you may also just build from source. It's now going to be on @fdroidorg and @IzzyOnDroid

I will add build instructions, too.

Show threadIzzyFeb 27

@yjeanrenaud @sab38 @CppGuy @f4grx @mosquete @fdroidorg build instructions: https://codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/rbtlog/src/branch/izzy/log/recipes/ch.pocketpc.nearbyglasses.yml

Removing the .git directory was just needed for RB, as the original was built outside of the git repo (so we needed to match that), and will hopefully no longer be needed with future releases. If you're just concerned about building, that step can be skipped already now 😉

rbtlog/recipes/ch.pocketpc.nearbyglasses.yml at izzy/log

rbtlog - Reproducible Builds Transparency Log for IzzyOnDroid

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Show threadF4GRX SébastienFeb 27
@sab38 @CppGuy @mosquete @yjeanrenaud come on, this is not an app that wants to track you.
Show threadS38Feb 27

@f4grx

Sorry. I was just pointing out that many of the tracker detectors only find things using common libraries. I didn't mean to imply anything directly about nearby glasses.

@CppGuy @mosquete @yjeanrenaud

Show threadIzzyFeb 27

@sab38 @CppGuy @f4grx @mosquete @yjeanrenaud and we checked for "other trackers", too, with our scanner. Find the new one here: https://codeberg.org/Katastima/apkscanner (written in Kotlin, and available on Maven, if someone wants to include it with their app/project). Library definitions: https://codeberg.org/Katastima/apkscanner-data

PS: if you can tell us how to check for _unknown_ trackers, we're all ears 🤪

apkscanner

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