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Re:ReCon analyzes network traffic to tell if personal info i... by cronology on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @02:07PM (#14454636)
I use Protect My Privacy[1] instead of XPrivacy. It has more intuitive UI and is being actively developed.

[1] http://repo.xposed.info/module/org.synergylabs.pmpandroid

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Re:ReCon analyzes network traffic to tell if personal info i... by drdaeman on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @02:39PM (#14454868)
It's a good solution, but may be less capable than XPrivacy, at least in some areas.

For example, I think PMP doesn't have options to filter loading native libraries or executing external commands - and this is sometimes useful, e.g. by blocking loadLibrary calls for libYandexMetricaNativeModule.so (some apps would crash, some would survive and would probably leak less analytics)

I believe both tools (and anything Xposed-based) isn't perfect, though - native code can work around this stuff. I wonder if there's QubesOS-like Android-in-Android (using a virtualization) solution exists, besides that Samsung's proprietary enterprisey nonsense...

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