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Exciting news! Trackers being built into the Bitwarden F-Droid app for who knows how long have been removed

https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile/commit/f343a2cdbb5895fb518ed963b30c0d9822db2c74

Previously two trackers were introduced: Google Firebase and Microsoft AppCrashes

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Why were there trackers initially?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's normal to track crashes and utilization to make software better, I don't think they tracked to sell data for advertising in bitwarden case

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And Google Firebase is what non-degoogled Android uses for notifications

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Even more, I think it's basically the only way. Lichess app got removed from vanilla F-Droid because of that.

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