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submitted 8 months ago by RedNight@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

Exciting news! Trackers being built into the Bitwarden F-Droid app for who knows how long have been removed

https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile/commit/f343a2cdbb5895fb518ed963b30c0d9822db2c74

Previously two trackers were introduced: Google Firebase and Microsoft AppCrashes

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[-] tributarium@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

Why were there trackers initially?

[-] RedNight@lemmy.ml 15 points 8 months ago

It was actually a mistake. They were removed years ago specifically for the fdroid builds, but were reintroduced at some point on accident. Annoying mistake for sure

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