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Exodus-Privacy / exodus

Platform to audit trackers used by Android application
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/
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Use apkid to display anti features #558

Open yoshimo opened 2 years ago

yoshimo commented 2 years ago

https://github.com/rednaga/APKiD/ should help to show elements that would make me think twice if I want to run an application. Heavily obfuscated and protected applications are suspicious. Especially if they don't like rooted and user customised applications.

pnu-s commented 10 months ago

WDYT @U039b ?

U039b commented 10 months ago

It's an excellent idea, but the results of the apkid analysis can be tricky to understand for users having no technical expertise. We can also imagine checking if the APK has been frosted or not (metadata added to the APK by Google Play).

blaueente commented 9 months ago

I think this feature is very important, as obfuscation often hides other trackers, which would make exodus causing harm in a paradoxical way: If people are looking up an obfuscated app in exodus, it might show "0 trackers", and people would be misled to assume it was exceptionally privacy friendly, when very likely the exact opposite is the case.