Exciting news! Trackers being built into the Bitwarden F-Droid app for who knows how long have been removed
https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile/commit/f343a2cdbb5895fb518ed963b30c0d9822db2c74
Previously two trackers were introduced: Google Firebase and Microsoft AppCrashes
15 Comments
tributarium@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y
Why were there trackers initially?
Tenkard@lemmy.ml · 42 pts · 2y
It's normal to track crashes and utilization to make software better, I don't think they tracked to sell data for advertising in bitwarden case
Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 2y
And Google Firebase is what non-degoogled Android uses for notifications
Danitos@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 2y
Even more, I think it's basically the only way. Lichess app got removed from vanilla F-Droid because of that.
RedNight@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 2y
It was actually a mistake. They were removed years ago specifically for the fdroid builds, but were reintroduced at some point on accident. Annoying mistake for sure
nameisnotimportant@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 2y
That's great news indeed!
Now if they could consider implementing some sort of sorting and more advanced filtering that would be a huge plus, along with dupe control
epoch@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
If the app is hosted at its own F-Droid repository, devs can add whatever they want. I wouldn't be surprised if that build is the exact same one as the Play Store one.
Nevertheless, good step for users! I wonder how devs will get crash reports and such stuff now, though...
MagneticFusion@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
delirious_owl@discuss.online · 3 pts · 2y
What's the advantage over XC
Theres so many
narrowide96lochkreis@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
DX is for smartphones, XC isn't
delirious_owl@discuss.online · 1 pts · 2y
Oh, I've been using KeepassDroid. I like that it doesn't support internet access
Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com · 3 pts · 2y
Just checked F-Droid and nothing popped up. Is it coming this way? Great if it does!
RedNight@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
Do you have their self-hosted fdroid repository installed?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 2y
Having a repo doesn't mean its on F-droid. I mean it does but using there repo forfeits the F-droid protections
Steve@communick.news · 1 pts · 2y
My F-Droid download keeps failing the hash check.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2y
It does that sometimes. Try clearing the download are starting over