[tor-talk] trackers in OONI Probe Mobile App / was: NEW RiseupVPN test in OONI Probe Mobile App

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Actually OONI tests is absolute useless to find anything bad, All the 
tests being done can be known trivially by using the internet e.g:

- check for websites blockage
- check for Tor blockage
- check for Internet speed
..etc

Which one of that need magic/effort to be known? child using the 
internet in that area can give you all the results without the need to 
run this OONI app

The current development/developers are giving garbage application.

It should give results for middle boxes , DNS/TLS hijacking ...etc 
something useful/worth to run OONI for.

One of the funny things it test for whatsapp if its blocked, But it 
doenst do that for signal or element/matrix where they are more 
important than the malware whatsapp... What a waste of effort and money

Christian Pietsch:
> Dear Maria,
> dear OONI Probe users,
> 
> having used OONI Probe on Android devices in the past, I was shocked
> to find out today that at least the version distributed via Google's
> Play Store seems to contain two trackers, namely Countly and Google
> Firebase Analytics: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/161999/
> 
> Countly is UK based. They admit that they collect personal data from
> users as defined in the GDPR: https://count.ly/legal/privacy-policy
> Regarding Google (Firebase) Analytics, we know they collect any data
> they can. Trackers are spyware. Don't use apps that contain them!
> 
> F-Droid provides a version of OONI Probe to Android users that is
> tracker-free – like all apps in this app store. I double-checked it
> using the Exodus software mentioned above on the command line.
> https://f-droid.org/de/packages/org.openobservatory.ooniprobe/
> 
> Why don't you provide a clean version of your app to the majority of
> Android users who still rely on Google's Play Store, OONI?
> 
> Cheers,
> Christian
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 11:21:13AM +0100, Maria Xynou wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We're excited to share that the latest OONI Probe version features a
>> brand new test for RiseupVPN!
>>
>> You can now check whether RiseupVPN works on your network. Learn all
>> about this test here: https://ooni.org/nettest/riseupvpn/
>>
>> To run the new RiseupVPN test, update to the latest version (2.9.1) of
>> OONI Probe Mobile: https://ooni.org/install/mobile
>>
>> All RiseupVPN test results from around the world are openly published in
>> near real-time:
>> https://explorer.ooni.org/search?since=2020-12-30&test_name=riseupvpn
>>
>> Warm thanks to the folks from the LEAP collective for developing this
>> new test! <3
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Maria (on behalf of the OONI team).
> 
>