"Collect and share" or spy and sell?

Now I'll email them my terms and conditions of 2k pages, then go to those stores and share my dirty socks for their overpriced junk.

I know I am going to get some hate for this but I just vibe coded a bus tracker to use on my iphone, because I was not about to use the cities app. I am trying so hard to climb out of Apple’s walled garden, my next phone is going to have grapheneOS on it and I will be so much more happier.

Every app said something like "does not sell any user data to third parties and data brokers" but not that they do not provide it. They may give it freely (to authorities, for example) whether allowed to or not. They may give it in exchange for something other than money.

The phrasing has that excessive specificity of someone who follows the letter of the law but delights in loopholes.

I have reached the point where I regularly leave my phone at home, in the car, at a friend's for a bit, etc. And that's even though I use grapheneOS.

I don't use wearables, I use web tools instead of apps whenever possible, and use random vpn locations on my other systems. But not everyone can do that, and these loopholers are taking far too much advantage.

Get TrackerControl from the f-droid store. You get to see what the app reaches out to, via an internal VPN to capture traffic. And it let's you block things in a granular fashion

Don't use the Google playstore version, as Google forced them to make it a view only tool and not a blocking tool.

One installed it shows as TC in the app names

The Office of the Federal Privacy Commissioner of Canada declined an interview, but a spokesperson said Marketplace’s findings raise “a number of concerns.”

Ha LoL, oups. Haha. We didn’t do our job there, did we