rizole
It's not even my banana.
Off the back of this article:
https://www.techspot.com/news/77077-new-study-claims-data-harvesting-among-android-apps.html
I installed Netguard firewall on my phone yesterday out of interest.
I mean, I don't think it's news that everyone's out for our data and there are threads in this forum about that but I've found it interesting to see what apps are doing invisibly in the background on my phone.
The linked article is about Android but i notice the apple terms of service do not preclude this sort of thing.
So after 2 days with a firewall installed....
An app that is phoning home without having been launched for over 3 months is Perfect piano. It connects to an unknown address and to facebook.
Instagram keeps communicating without being launched. It talks to Instagram, Facebook and Doubleclick
YouTube keeps checking in with google and I never use it.
Nothing else has connected without being launched so far. That said, all the apps I've launched talk to google and Facebook. There's one app produced by a bus company that does too. It also talks to Doubleclick. The odd thing about that though is that there are no adverts in the app and no direct links to google or Facebook in it, its purely an informational app.
https://www.techspot.com/news/77077-new-study-claims-data-harvesting-among-android-apps.html
I installed Netguard firewall on my phone yesterday out of interest.
I mean, I don't think it's news that everyone's out for our data and there are threads in this forum about that but I've found it interesting to see what apps are doing invisibly in the background on my phone.
The linked article is about Android but i notice the apple terms of service do not preclude this sort of thing.
So after 2 days with a firewall installed....
An app that is phoning home without having been launched for over 3 months is Perfect piano. It connects to an unknown address and to facebook.
Instagram keeps communicating without being launched. It talks to Instagram, Facebook and Doubleclick
YouTube keeps checking in with google and I never use it.
Nothing else has connected without being launched so far. That said, all the apps I've launched talk to google and Facebook. There's one app produced by a bus company that does too. It also talks to Doubleclick. The odd thing about that though is that there are no adverts in the app and no direct links to google or Facebook in it, its purely an informational app.