[lucgommans]

If you install TrackerControl, no root needed (it pretends to be a VPN to capture your traffic, but is not a real VPN), you will see which apps try to talk to tracking services and thus also which ones talk to Google.

It also as a 'traffic log' feature which, when turned on, shows live which app is talking to which tracker.

Note that, especially if you turn on blocking services marked as essential in the setup, you will need to unblock a lot of CDNs and tracking services for many apps to work including Spotify, your browser, etc. Of course you can also just whitelist apps completely, or temporarily turn all blocking off altogether. But by default it will block trackers, since that's kind of its point. This has the side effect of blocking virtually all advertisements.

[sabellito]

Thanks for the recommendation.

If anyone else is interested, the app's website is https://trackercontrol.org

[privacyisntdead]

Is there an iOS equivalent? 1Blocker and Lockdown seem close but not as good.

[runjake]

Check out the Guardian app. Founded by Will Strafach (aka Chronic, famous for the early iPhone jailbreak scene).

https://guardianapp.com/

[thepra]

And don't download the crippled play store version, go and get it from the source

[account-5]

I installed this and when I turn it on it stops all internet access to any app needing to access the internet. For example my podcast app immediately stops working.

[bklaasen]

> Note that, especially if you turn on blocking services marked as essential in the setup, you will need to unblock a lot of CDNs and tracking services for many apps to work including Spotify, your browser, etc. Of course you can also just whitelist apps completely, or temporarily turn all blocking off altogether. But by default it will block trackers, since that's kind of its point. This has the side effect of blocking virtually all advertisements.

Might be time to consider a different Podcatcher.

[account-5]

I'm using AttennaPod from FDroid store. Assuming that means it might be podcast specific.

[lucgommans]

Also using AntennaPod from F-Droid here: it gets its data from CDNs. The CDN is in a position to log data from a lot of people, that's why I think they are on the block list.

It depends on which podcasts you listen to which services you need to unblock I think. The 'essential' category is usually a good starting point but you might need more, especially for the search which iirc comes from Apple/iTunes.

You can also just whitelist AntennaPod completely of course, being an open source app from F-Droid that's relatively trustworthy.

[bklaasen]

Did you enable "Block essential data sharing" during initial setup?