Talk:Android Data Collection

3p section

We need a section about third-party tracking.

• Here you can see how apps bypass play-store policies to enumerate almost all installed apps. Outside of play-store, there's no such policy, so QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES can be abused.
• The fact that INTERNET is not a "dangerous" permission, is no surprise because gluegle loves ads. This forces users to install apps such as NetGuard, which gluegle forbids from blocking host-names simply because it can be used to block ads

Apps like AIDA64 and AppManager can access a lot more info about the device, by default, which implies that other apps can abuse permissions to do excessive fingerprinting.

Rudxain (talk) 12:15, 13 November 2025 (UTC)