Post #2429278
2026-04-10 14:01 UTC
@projetslibres_podcast@piaille.fr @Framasoft@framapiaf.org @fla@mastodon.social Exodus Privacy uses a very similar approach to label apps as having trackers based on whether they include a library from a small list they've decided as trackers. Many of those decisions are dubious and it misses that the most privacy invasive behavior by apps isn't done that way. It also has extremely inaccurate labelling of permissions misleading users about how that works. Here's a great example of both with Facebook Lite:
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.facebook.lite/latest/
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@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social 2026-04-10 14:04
@projetslibres_podcast@piaille.fr @Framasoft@framapiaf.org @fla@mastodon.social According to Exodus Privacy, there's no tracking being done by Facebook Lite. This is the information about trackers which is provided to users within /e/ when they use their Play Store frontend. They're telling users one of Facebook's main apps isn't tracking them. They're also certainly not stopping the tracking via their DNS blocklist. The list of permissions shown there and by /e/ is also extremely inaccurate and misleading. It doesn't work that way.