We still need to check if they don't tie anything back to device
not all open source apps are privacy concerned right?
Open source doesn't mean privacy and/or security automatically. But at least you can see what the app does. If you can read code.
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not all open source apps are privacy concerned right?
right, most of them are not
BaronAfanas you know a quick way to identify such things? As in opsec?
AlphaElwedritsch how can you figure it out quickly on GitHub?
But at least you can see what the app does
People can see what closed source apps do too. It's a misconception that source code is required to look at what the code is doing. Either way, the code is available for review. It's much more convenient to review it as source code than compiled code, but the gap depends on the language. It's quite easy to review compiled Java code with basic tools, while reviewing compiled C or especially C++ code is significantly harder.
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GrapheneOS you mean through reverse engineering?
Sempa Absolutely not, no. I learned a bit of Basic in school. I trust people find suspicious behavior of apps and report it.
BaronAfanas oh alright I see. Where would you look at mainly? Thanks for your answer by the way
Sempa I would simply use apps from Github and Accrescent that are supposed to be trustworthy, until someone tells me otherwise. Nothing from Big Tech.
When there is suddenly commotion about an app changing their terms and stuff in a bad way, I usually switch to something else.
It helps that I don't use many apps anyway. And sometimes you have to use a certain app, like the banking app your bank provides, if you want the convenience, like scanning the QR code on an invoice.
But I saw how many trackers the eBay app uses (in Aurora Store via Exodus, though there seems to be some controversy about that in this forum), so I simply use the website.