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What are in your opinion "essential" android apps that aren't as popular/talked about?
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this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2023
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Exodus scans your installed apps and tells you which ones require ridiculous permissions and trackers. You should download it after you try the other apps on this thread to make sure you're not using anything that's basically spyware.
How do we know it's not spyware pretending to be an anti-spyware
Exodus scans itself too. It has 0 trackers and requires 6 permissions, which makes it one of the least invasive apps I own.
How do you know it's telling the truth
Well, their source code appears to be freely available on Github. That's a pretty good indicator.
The numbers can be verified in the os settings. Exodus just aggregates the data and identifies common issues.
Numbers mean nothing to me as I can not count.
Exodus can't solve that for you, nor can I.
society has truly abandoned me
I don't get the advantage, android already tells you "This app wants access to your contacts" or whatever?
Android doesn't give you the full story. "This app wants access to your contacts" could mean it needs 1 thing in the contacts (1 permission) or it scrapes everything from all your contacts (>10 permissions). This is the kind of thing that social networks like Tik Tok do to get so much data, and they get to hide all of it behind one "Click allow" pop up.
I always figured if any given app wants my contacts it'd scrape and upload them somewhere so I always say no, but I see the use case now