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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Oh great, the Belgian good alternative for piece of shit Facebook marketplace is on there... 2dehands.

We can never have nice things...

Also Good Pizza Great Pizza ๐Ÿ˜ข

This is actually a really handy app!

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Developer here. I hacked this app together after reading the story and didn't touch it since, hence why it's not very polished.

I've just released 0.2 which makes it clearer when no affected apps are installed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

Good luck and thanks

[โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

For the out of the loop, but also lazy:

Android app that reveals installed apps which may be leaking your location data.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Additional info for the lazy: the name of the company is "Gravy Analytics", hence the name "Gravy Scanner" for this app. It's a large data broker, and they don't bother with pesky little details like "informed consent".

Anyway, they got hacked a month ago, and the hackers threatened to publicly release all the data.

https://slrpnk.net/post/17048112

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Outlook being on that list is crazy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

All kind of sh*t must be expected from closed source apps tbh

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Office 365 too

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've got several hits, but none of them have permission to request my location. If I understand the README correctly, that should mean I'm safe, right?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Location could also imply IP address-based location, and not necessarily GPS.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

True, but at that point, every website I'll ever visit and have visited in the past might be a threat, so that doesn't really matter too much to me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

every website Iโ€™ll ever visit and have visited in the past might be a threat

In that sense, you are right. However, there are ways to cloak your IP address and location.

Privacy is a massive rabbit hole depending on what threat you are trying to protect yourself from. Sometimes, the effort (and the stuff that breaks along the way) isn't worth it.

If location implies an area extending 300ย km in either direction, does it really matter? To most people, not really.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

I get a blank screen. Broken or does that mean I have none? On GrapheneOS

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

We're team "fuck no!". Welcome to paradise.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Most likely, that means you're clean. On mine, the output is just a white screen with a list of the affected apps... Clicking on one of them takes me to that app's settings.

It does that one thing, with no explanations or instructions, so it wouldn't surprise me to learn that it doesn't show a message to indicate that nothing was found.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Yay for team blank screen... I think?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I guess one could install an impacted app to test.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I think it means you're clean. I use GOS, it gave me one entry (Viber)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Same question, on vanilla android.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was surprised to see SoundCloud on the list, now I have to recreate my music list in newpipe ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Or go back to the good old days and download/rip what you like to .mp3, .ogg, or .flac depending on your peference.

I have several thousand songs on my phone that I can listen to without the need for an internet connection, subscription fees, accounts, or anything.

There are tons of good FOSS local music player apps out there that you should check out. I use Auxio from the F-Droid store but have used others in the past.

On desktop, I use Elisa.

You can make sure your library is always up to date with your desktop by using syncthing.

[โ€“] alphapuggle 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ugh flightradar24 is a hit. Really??

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I don't need this app to know flightradar is a risk.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Vampire survivors? Damn

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Most British app ever made

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks! I uninstalled everything it listed. Pluto.tv, outlook, and Sonic.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

i got one its a kids game which i already know it is shit but i have firewall and block the internet for it also now i deleted it now i'm clean cuz i already use 95% foss apps

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

now i'm clean cuz i already use 95% foss apps>

I mostly use Foss apps too, but unfortunately my phone is bloatwared

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

easyist way is to use canta with shizuku