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

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I think you miss the point, OONI is more than the App, its also the 
public database with the test results.

And while i agree that Signal/Matrix etc. should be more important, they 
are not. Whatsapp is far more used.

Greetings

On 06.02.2021 09:11, bo0od wrote:
> 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).
>> 
>>