• speck@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    I figure if I lurk here someone will come along and breakdown whether this is legit to install or not

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      11 months ago

      I tried it on my device… Works great!

      But it’s just a Voice to Text utility at the moment, so only where there’s a mic icon for said VTT applications. But they’re working on integration with open source keyboards and also suggested the possibility that they’d make one of their own keyboards.

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      11 months ago

      It is if you don’t care about your privacy, this app contains user tracking telemetry with no way to disable or opt-out. I downloaded it, scanned it with exodus and deleted it afterwards.

      I didn’t expect much considering he works for this company and this click baity post is a paid advertisement.

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          11 months ago

          Its no work, it only takes a second. Download Googles classyshark app. The fdroid version contains the embedded exodusprivacy database.

          Whenever you install a new app scan it with classyshark and you will instantly know if the app will be tracking you or not.

          This way you don’t have to believe strangers on the internet: trust but verify for yourself.

          Of course in this case you didn’t even really need to do that. The link is to a YouTube influencer who is pushing a “privacy app” by a company he works for…

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          11 months ago

          From reading other posts it sounds like it is only for crash reporting and that the user has to click to provide the report in the event of a crash. It also appears to be documented in their policy docs so it’s not exactly like it’s anything underhanded.

          If the user doesn’t trust that their data will be safe, couldn’t the domain attached to the tracker found by Classyshark be blocked using something like NextDNS or RethinkDNS to prevent any data from connecting to said domain?