Our app simplifies the process of scanning barcodes and searching for products that is listed for the boycott movement.

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    1 day ago

    You can’t trust those “app has tracking in it” flags because they usually have scary wording for extremely basic and normal things that wouldn’t impact your privacy.

    An app anonymously tracks if an user clicks a button or not. This becomes “ThIs APp pHOnEs HomE tRaCkiNg uSErS”

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      17 hours ago

      An app anonymously tracks if an user clicks a button or not. This becomes “ThIs APp pHOnEs HomE tRaCkiNg uSErS”

      That is not normal and I absolutely object to it! Fuck anybody who wants to normalize that.

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      1 day ago

      I’d be inclined to agree if it wasn’t broken down into more detail than what I actually shared. The app includes ads and one of the trackers is Google AdMob, so that’s definitely not anonymous tracking. It’s also impossible* to be sure whether the other two trackers, Google Crashlytics and Firebase Analytics, are anonymous.

      *without reading the source code, at least

      Edit to add the report that Aurora Store used

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        21 hours ago

        The ads are not present in the app unless you voluntarily watch one in the Support tab by clicking ‘Watch Ad’

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          7 hours ago

          Unfortunately that has no bearing on whether the tracking is active