Tired of all the tracking in app. 9 trackers found. Any suggestions?
9 Trackers Detected in Textra
598 tested signatures on 20976 classes
(11813031)
Amazon Advertisement
°Google Play Install Referrer
Google AdMob
Google Firebase Analytics
IAB Open Measurement
Inmobi
Moat
Smaato
Tappx
*Amazon Advertisement
128com.amazon.device.ads
*Google AdMob
27com.google.ads.
342com.google.android.gms.ads.
*Google Firebase Analytics
14com.google.android.gms.measurement.
*IAB Open Measurement
266com.iab.omid.library
*Inmobi
621com.inmobi
*Moat
91com.moat.analytics.mobile.
*Smaato
994com.smaato.
*Tappx
67com.tappx.sdk.
*°Google Play Install Referrer
12com.android.installreferrer
file:///data/app/~~Bnb2y4Sqi5K-c5PwsGsCDA%3D%3D/com.textra-jD9SCwu5EPoq5Aae3cLjMA%3D%3D/base.apk
MD5sum: 38a2df184b2009cb5c0d48daee7f900b
SHA1sum: a27f0974518b56d55a29629520b773321f61f296
SHA256sum: b25224621825637f652c58905b1cd83350944d8dd5ab0d8188bd82f782f30f07
CN=chompSMS
SHA1withRSA
CERTIFICATE fingerprints:
md5: f0f1ea75d97096771c5056d741836541
sha1: 1ba23faa58443e811f8352118377846149efd5c7
sha256: f6176da5770d5348bf95aad29dcbc0561dc0d3d384337f0bd22f2afda241b92e
Hmm. I downloaded Signal and saw that no trackers were detected, which is good. But it appears it doesn’t do SMS anymore. I couldn’t text anyone who didn’t have Signal. So that’s s no-go for me.
Yep, the hardest part of Signal is convincing everyone you text to use it. Though, once you do, it’s awesome!
SMS as a protocol is pretty bunk. I’m not sure any app can save it. That’s why I just stick to the default SMS app. Well, that, and because that app is made by Anrdoid and your carrier, who can already track everything anyway, so there’s no (extra) privacy hit.
In the newest versions of android there is no aosp texting app IIRC, it’s Google’s RCS messaging app as default.
Carrier messaging apps served a funny period where not every device/rom supported RCS imo, would be interesting if there are any still going…