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You include an untrusted, proprietary binary from Google. Not directly, but as a recursive dependency: com.google.android.gms:play-services-analytics So, yes, you give data to Google. The Google analytics dependency you include could literally be malware, and you could not test, or know. And you never know if it doesn’t just decide to steal your data and transmit it all, be it by Google’s decision or because an NSL w…
Because that library is there does not mean that we are giving data to Google. It does not even mean that it is active or that it is sending anything. This is a very strange conclusion that you present. I feel you are just twisting and turning to come to an unfavourable outcome here. Even Google has decent data collection policies. They will not randomly make an application collect data without the developer opting i…
I thought Firefox Focus was a great step forward in privacy, but I am dismayed to see it includes Google code, that it uses a third party analytics library, and that the developers do not see either of those as a big problem.