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[aravindvnair99]

Firebase Crashlytics is a lightweight, realtime crash reporter that helps developers track, prioritize, and fix stability issues that erode app quality. Crashlytics saves developers troubleshooting time by intelligently grouping crashes and highlighting the circumstances that lead up to them.

I don't think Crashlytics should be blocked. It's used in various apps and is useful for a lot of developers.

[mtxadmin]

Hmm. I am against telemetry services as well as analytics. I know, telemetry helps developers to enhance their apps, but prefer not to expose my data to third parties.

[mtxadmin]

Also, there is such thing as "crashlytics.advertising.id". I've seen it in scripts, but there is some mentions of it as well. For instance, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55138527/firebase-crashlytics-use-of-advertising-id https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/mobile-ads-sdk/android/crashlytics

[aravindvnair99]

Also, there is such thing as "crashlytics.advertising.id". I've seen it in scripts, but there is some mentions of it as well. For instance, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55138527/firebase-crashlytics-use-of-advertising-id https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/mobile-ads-sdk/android/crashlytics

@mtxadmin I couldn't find any link between advertising and crashlytics. Also, the link you gave says "Service Unavailable" for me

[aravindvnair99]

Hmm. I am against telemetry services as well as analytics. I know, telemetry helps developers to enhance their apps, but prefer not to expose my data to third parties.

@mtxadmin I feel there's a difference between good telemetry and bad telemetry. I only see Google Analytics linked to Google Crashlytics in the following manner as described at https://firebase.google.com/docs/crashlytics/start-using-analytics, but yes customisation options are available https://firebase.google.com/docs/crashlytics/customize-crash-reports

[mtxadmin]

@DRSDavidSoft, I didn't see your comment, sorry. Very useful note, thanks!

For history: https://github.com/mtxadmin/ublock/issues/28 (this) https://github.com/anudeepND/blacklist/issues/163 https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/1566 https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues/896 https://github.com/blocklistproject/Lists/issues/218 https://github.com/tiuxo/hosts/issues/27 https://github.com/lightswitch05/hosts/issues/125 https://github.com/EnergizedProtection/block/issues/701

Telemetry will remain blocked.

[DRSDavidSoft]

Awesome, Telemetry, Diagnostics & Crash Reporting in this list should be blocked. They are not blocked on other, more lightweight lists which people can use instead of @mtxadmin's ublock list which don't block crashlytics and similar services (such as firebase).

Thanks!