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2019-06-10
Exodus Privacy: The Tracker-Checker
Meanwhile, at least two thirds of all Android Apps are tracker ridden. Even the paid ones. More than ten trackers in a single app are no rare cases – even apps with 20 or more than 30 trackers have already turned up. And they endangering our privacy. Play Store doesn’t point them out – but thanks to Exodus Privacy, we track them down. | |||
2018-12-31
Your own F-Droid Repository with Repomaker
The previous articles showed what F-Droid is and how it works. Now we want to see how to host our own app repository, and make it available to other F-Droid users. For this task, the F-Droid team offers a fine and easy-to-use tool: Repomaker. | |||
2021-04-13 (2018-12-23)
F-Droid for advanced users and developers
This article covers advanced topics: you can use 3rd-party repositories and have the privileged extension to take care for automated updates. Further it will be shown how new apps can be added to F-Droid. | |||
2018-12-09
F-Droid: The privacy-friendly alternative to Google Play Store
With Google Play Store you´re tracked without end: by the Play Store itself as well as by the most apps you can find in it. But you can escape that – e.g. by turning your back to Play Store and instead use an alternative focusing on free and open software as well as privacy. One such can be found in F-Droid – which this article introduces. | |||
2018-05-27
Root for all: Magisk
Ever heard of Magisk? No, thats no mythical creature. This tool applies a MAGIcal maSK on top of the read-only system partition, which enables us to do some interesting things. Some of them you will find in this article. | |||
2018-01-09
IzzyOnDroid’s F-Droid Repo with additional functionality
It has been around for quite a while, but was never introduced in an article here. Time for a few words on the „IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repo“ and what it offers. | |||
2017-11-10 (2017-04-22)
What’s it all about those modules apps contain?
Most apps ship with additional modules. Some of those are required for the functionality, others are not. While still serving a justified purpose, they come at a cost. This article will take a deeper look at this second category. | |||
2017-09-12 (2016-08-22)
Android Identifiers: How Android devices and their users are identified
App reviews and security reports mention them regularly: identifiers which apps like to access. Identitifying information picked from the device and „getting transfered to somewhere“. In this context, terms like „Google Adverising ID“ or „Android ID“ are referenced. What do they mean? And what other „identifiers“ are there, which purposes do they serve? | |||
2016-06-02 (2016-06-01)
Smartwatches and privacy – contradiction in terms?
We´ve already got our privacy concerns with out smartphones: Will apps leak our personal data? How much do embedded ad-modules collect? Are we already „glass people“ to the big players? So considering smartwatches communicate with our Android devices, adding even more personal data (just think of the health apps), aren´t the terms „smartwatch“ and „privacy“ rather antagonisms? A short test. | |||
2016-03-28
What can we learn about apps from market stats?
IzzyOnDroid now is in its third year of existence, having collected app data since its start. With over 13.000 apps listed here: Is there anything we can learn about them from those data? I´d say we can, and this article will show what. Read on! | |||
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