• spez_@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Is it? Closed source means it’s probably listening and recording and selling

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        7 months ago

        I mean if you’re using something like Firebase on Android, the network calls get bundled with Google Play Services and you have no idea what that’s sending up

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          7 months ago

          But if you have a DNS intercepter/redirect like RethinkDNS or DDG, it should show which queries are coming from which profile

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          7 months ago

          You don’t know what DNS is, do you?

          Basically your device (for example your phone) needs to know the ip adress of any service it wants to connect to. As you may know these services usually use addresses like Lemmy.org or google.com or whatever.

          To know what IP adres is behind these addresses, you device needs to ask a dns server, in a local network (like your own WiFi) this is usually your router, but you can set it to any arbitrary device you want. This way you can see what addresses are being asked for by your device.

          So if the app want to send data to some server, it usually needs to resolve the adress first. And you can see that.