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[โ€“] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Oh great, the Belgian good alternative for piece of shit Facebook marketplace is on there... 2dehands.

We can never have nice things...

Also Good Pizza Great Pizza ๐Ÿ˜ข

This is actually a really handy app!

[โ€“] steffandroid@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Developer here. I hacked this app together after reading the story and didn't touch it since, hence why it's not very polished.

I've just released 0.2 which makes it clearer when no affected apps are installed.

[โ€“] chottomatte@lemdro.id 2 points 1 day ago

Good luck and thanks

[โ€“] MNByChoice@midwest.social 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

For the out of the loop, but also lazy:

Android app that reveals installed apps which may be leaking your location data.

[โ€“] Revered_Beard@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Additional info for the lazy: the name of the company is "Gravy Analytics", hence the name "Gravy Scanner" for this app. It's a large data broker, and they don't bother with pesky little details like "informed consent".

Anyway, they got hacked a month ago, and the hackers threatened to publicly release all the data.

https://slrpnk.net/post/17048112

[โ€“] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 14 points 2 days ago

"Leak"

Bro the data is being stolen for fucking criminals. Call this crime what is.

You got threat actors using contract law in bad faith to exploit stupid, poorly educated peasants

But hey good thing they got nothing to hide ๐Ÿคก

[โ€“] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Outlook being on that list is crazy.

[โ€“] chottomatte@lemdro.id 1 points 1 day ago

All kind of sh*t must be expected from closed source apps tbh

[โ€“] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

Office 365 too

[โ€“] Kayana@ttrpg.network 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've got several hits, but none of them have permission to request my location. If I understand the README correctly, that should mean I'm safe, right?

[โ€“] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Location could also imply IP address-based location, and not necessarily GPS.

[โ€“] Kayana@ttrpg.network 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

True, but at that point, every website I'll ever visit and have visited in the past might be a threat, so that doesn't really matter too much to me.

[โ€“] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

every website Iโ€™ll ever visit and have visited in the past might be a threat

In that sense, you are right. However, there are ways to cloak your IP address and location.

Privacy is a massive rabbit hole depending on what threat you are trying to protect yourself from. Sometimes, the effort (and the stuff that breaks along the way) isn't worth it.

If location implies an area extending 300ย km in either direction, does it really matter? To most people, not really.

[โ€“] ninjaturtle@lemmy.today 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

I get a blank screen. Broken or does that mean I have none? On GrapheneOS

[โ€“] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

We're team "fuck no!". Welcome to paradise.

[โ€“] Revered_Beard@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Most likely, that means you're clean. On mine, the output is just a white screen with a list of the affected apps... Clicking on one of them takes me to that app's settings.

It does that one thing, with no explanations or instructions, so it wouldn't surprise me to learn that it doesn't show a message to indicate that nothing was found.

[โ€“] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 6 hours ago

Yup, Dev replied in another comment and updated it.

Yay for team blank screen... I think?

[โ€“] chottomatte@lemdro.id 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] FuryMaker@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I guess one could install an impacted app to test.

[โ€“] chottomatte@lemdro.id 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

I think it means you're clean. I use GOS, it gave me one entry (Viber)

Same question, on vanilla android.

[โ€“] ravermeister@lemmy.rimkus.it 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was surprised to see SoundCloud on the list, now I have to recreate my music list in newpipe ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] semperverus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Or go back to the good old days and download/rip what you like to .mp3, .ogg, or .flac depending on your peference.

I have several thousand songs on my phone that I can listen to without the need for an internet connection, subscription fees, accounts, or anything.

There are tons of good FOSS local music player apps out there that you should check out. I use Auxio from the F-Droid store but have used others in the past.

On desktop, I use Elisa.

You can make sure your library is always up to date with your desktop by using syncthing.

[โ€“] alphapuggle@programming.dev 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ugh flightradar24 is a hit. Really??

[โ€“] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

I don't need this app to know flightradar is a risk.

[โ€“] Gerudo@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

Vampire survivors? Damn

Most British app ever made

[โ€“] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks! I uninstalled everything it listed. Pluto.tv, outlook, and Sonic.

[โ€“] mugdad1@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

i got one its a kids game which i already know it is shit but i have firewall and block the internet for it also now i deleted it now i'm clean cuz i already use 95 foss apps

[โ€“] chottomatte@lemdro.id 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

now i'm clean cuz i already use 95% foss apps>

I mostly use Foss apps too, but unfortunately my phone is bloatwared

[โ€“] mugdad1@lemm.ee 1 points 22 hours ago

easyist way is to use canta with shizuku