Investigation Xoth: Smartphone location tracking

Re:Investigation Xoth: Smartphone location tracking by qart on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @02:40AM (#25998276)

I only buy LineageOS compatible phones. Its Privacy Guard feature allows fine control over permissions.

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Re:Investigation Xoth: Smartphone location tracking by notRobot on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @02:41AM (#25998281)

Unfortunately Privacy Guard is no longer a thing with LOS17 :(

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Re:Investigation Xoth: Smartphone location tracking by qart on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @02:53AM (#25998339)

Ah. News to me. My device is still on LOS15. I also use https://github.com/OxfordHCC/tracker-control-android to monitor apps.

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Re:Investigation Xoth: Smartphone location tracking by lavios on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @01:39PM (#26004787)

XprivacyLua works fine as a replacement but it requires Xposed Framework.

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Re:Investigation Xoth: Smartphone location tracking by bitcharmer on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @03:41AM (#25998616)

Do you know the reason behind it? Was it replaced by something else?

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Re:Investigation Xoth: Smartphone location tracking by cookiengineer on Thursday February 04, 2021 @12:46AM (#26022985)

But hasn't this gotten very similar to the upstream AOSP 10 app settings? I know they are somewhat hidden, but you can change a lot about an App's behaviour and even fake location data for a specific App.

I didn't use Lineage with Privacy Guard (too old or too new devices)... so what's the TLDR on the featureset that's missing?

Might be worth creating an alternative for 10+ if there isn't any.

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Re:Investigation Xoth: Smartphone location tracking by arbol on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @03:41AM (#25998606)

My 5yr old phone is apparently compatible but I found lineage essentially didn't work with it. Had to revert to vendor Android. I will try again when I get a new phone though.

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Re:Investigation Xoth: Smartphone location tracking by redisman on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @02:42AM (#25998289)

How does it otherwise compare to Android or iPhone?

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Re:Investigation Xoth: Smartphone location tracking by qart on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @02:56AM (#25998351)

LineageOS is Android. The usual Google Play store is available on it (after installation of gapps). Apparently Privacy Guard is gone in the latest LineageOS. If you're on Android, give this a try: https://github.com/OxfordHCC/tracker-control-android

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