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Wonder how much an app is tracking you? Now you can see it from within the Google Play web interface thanks to ExodusPrivacy.
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What data is stored? #2

Closed friarfool closed 5 years ago

friarfool commented 6 years ago

Does the extension itself save any of the API calls, thus creating a browsing history of the user?

BillCarsonFr commented 5 years ago

Sorry for (very) late response. No the extension does not save this, the application just require the 'storage' permission to store a boolean preference settings (you can see the preference in the settings page of the plugin). Also you can see in the manifest that the app only make calls to 'https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/api/search/*'

So actually when you visit a google play store page, the addon will make a https call for each app detected in the page to the exodus web site (that is not tracking you). Eventually your browser can catch that, so choose a good browser.