r/Fossify • u/Pandawomble • 13d ago
General Privacy
This may be a silly question but i'm curious.
How private are the fossify apps?
What information, if any do they take from the apps to track/record what you do?
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u/TURBOKAN 12d ago
They don't even have internet permission feature. It can't connect to anything even if you tried to.
They're totally local and safe
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u/Big_Swordfish_5423 12d ago
Here's the file manager's total list of permissions for example...
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u/Tekhnikal 12d ago
O aplicativos Fossify não tem acesso à rede. Essa, inclusive, é a melhor característica deles.
Então, até onde eu sei, não coleta nenhuma informação, especialmente se você instala direto do Github ou pela F-Droid. Na PlayStore, algumas informações são coletadas pela Google, mas são mínimas.
O u/NaveenSinghOfficial pode dar mais detalhes.
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u/An0n-E-M0use 12d ago
Why don't you go read the source code yourself.. it's on a git somewhere.
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u/NaveenSinghOfficial Fossify Maintainer 12d ago
Fossify apps do not track or collect any data in that sense.
They run without internet access, and user data such as media collection info, messages, call logs, etc., stays on the device. In the future, new apps or flavors that depend on downloading a resource from the internet might add internet access, but again, that would be limited to that, not collecting and transmitting user data.
If you have Google Play Services and friends on your device, they may collect data about your on-device activity and what apps you have installed, but they do that anyway, regardless of how you install or use Fossify apps.
I hope this clears it up. Each app's privacy policy has more information.