Decided to read the permissions my apps grant more closely since I installed some with black?nd trust because I had them on my iPhone.
As you would expect many of these apps such as Pandora had quetionable permissions, ie pandora can send emails anonymously from your device, I'm rooted and all that good stuff so I'm looking for a way to maybe block certain app permissions.
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Here you go!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1091065
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Is there any good ad blockers for non rooted phone. I have looked at some but they don't look all that great...
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I think you have to root your device if you really want to live Ad-Free
Unfortunately it's true
I've used Adblock, which uses http proxy, it's reasonable...but no in app blocking
https://market.android.com/details?id=de.ub0r.android.adBlock
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AdFree is a good choice for rooted phones, but since. You haven't got root, I don't think you can have really effective ad blocking... At least, as mentioned above, not in-App.
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Sorry forgot to say that it is not for me but for some of my friends personal I use the rom toolbox from jrummy16
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Adfree, i don't know if you have to be rooted to use it.
I am relatively new to this whole community; however I have looked and can't find anything like this.
Is there an app or a way to monitor what information is being sent from your smartphone? As kind of a reverse CIQ, so you can see what information apps and other things are collecting about you, and or taking it one step further and having the control to block that info from being sent?
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You can look at the permissions asked by each application. If if you want to block the application, just uninstall it LOL.
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Lbe privacy guard
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orlandoxpolice said:
Lbe privacy guard
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Thanks for this. I guess where my confusion comes when you give something like a calendar app you download from the market permission to access you calendar information are you also giving that app permission to send collected information back to the apps dev?
Also information regarding Locations, Contacts etc etc....
I have the switchme app and I want to uninstall. Do I just simple uninstall from manage applications? Will it delete everything in the other "account"? I don't want non used stuff to be taking up memory. Want to know basically will it be a legit full uninstall?
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what do you mean by other account?
Or "login"... switchme which allows to have different profiles or accounts on a phone.
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Does anyone know how to make an application that will not allow Facebook to be installed? I might be interested in purchasing an application like this or making 1
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If you don't want a particular app then don't install it. There's probably no way to block installation of a given app.
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gregcapps said:
If you don't want a particular app then don't install it. There's probably no way to block installation of a given app.
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What he said. Is there a particular reason you want to block the installation of Facebook?
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Though if you had a vendetta (and a rooted phone), you could always just put a Facebook catch-all into your hosts file to black-hole attempts to reach them. Wouldn't stop the app, would stop it from ever actually working and any website connecting there.
I think you would need to sign up for a MDM service. There a few of them out there and they should be able to either block apps from being installed or automatically uninstall it if it gets installed.
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Haha sorry I was just kidding but also wondering. Yeah I know how to install apps or not. I was thinking of an app that you can download and then when you did want to download facebook it wouldn't let you. Its really just a joke brotherhood. I don't have a Facebook problem but I see one developing lol.
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why would you need that?
I'm just curious because I don't see why a flash light needs all this access.
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Usually they collect information about your device and submit it to their servers. Better not to install it, or install XPrivacy to deny the permissions. But it's nothing compared to Facebook's permissions. http://imgur.com/JGFhiW3
Allows application to take pictures and videos without your knowledge. That is by far the most ****ed up thing I've seen thus far today.
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verbatim20 said:
I'm just curious because I don't see why a flash light needs all this access.
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No, there are other flash light apps, which don't require all these permisions.