After the discussion in the following post I dug a bit deeper the rabbit hole.

While I mostly relied on Exodus to see if an app has trackers in it… I was baffle to see all the sketchy requests it made while dumping the DNS requests with PCAPdroid…

Over 200 shady requests in a few seconds after login… here’s a preview:

While I don’t use AdguardVPN, I have Adguard Home as my DNS server in my homelab… I think It’s time to switch to pi-hole !

Edit: VPN pcapdroid

  • Fontasia@feddit.nl
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    6 months ago

    A lot of paranoia on this community :(

    There’s a few sign in checks (The variety makes me think Disqus or something similar.), a couple of keep alives, your phone registering for Wi-Fi calling, Fallback DNS requests, a couple of CDN requests which I would get is likely update checks and finally YouTube content for NewPipe. I think I’m seeing five tracking cookies based on the rest of your apps here, probably being sent “Do Not Track” requests.