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michaelkourlas / voipms-sms-client

Popular Android messaging app for VoIP.ms, a Canadian VoIP provider
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.kourlas.voipms_sms
Apache License 2.0
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Please remove Google Tracking (Crashlytics, Firebase) from F-Droid App #256

Closed ttffm closed 10 months ago

ttffm commented 10 months ago

Is there any way you can please remove these trackers from the F-Droid version of the app out of concern for privacy and to avoid Google data collection as much possible?

michaelkourlas commented 10 months ago

The F-Droid version does not contain any Firebase code.

ttffm commented 10 months ago

Unless, I am missing something, exodus shows these trackers. Screenshot_2023-09-06_10-46-37

michaelkourlas commented 10 months ago

The version published on F-Droid is fine.

Screenshot_20230906_141336_Chrome

michaelkourlas commented 10 months ago

I think there may be some Google/Firebase code left in my own F-Droid builds. I just disable some of the generated tasks, but F-Droid completely strips out the plugins.

What I've been doing may not be sufficient to disable the Google/Firebase code, so to be safe I am going to remove all of the F-Droid builds I've published.

I'm also going to see if I can change my build to strip out the plugins instead.

ttffm commented 10 months ago

Thank you. Looking forward to the updated version.

michaelkourlas commented 10 months ago

You can just download the latest version directly from F-Droid. Their builds don't have this problem.

michaelkourlas commented 10 months ago

Actually, I think I may have jumped the gun. I tested my APK manually using exodusprivacy/exodus-standalone and it doesn't report having any tracking code either.

I can't really explain your results.