<story><title>How mobile apps illegally share personal data</title><url>https://noyb.eu/en/how-mobile-apps-illegally-share-your-personal-data</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jqpabc123</author><text>Long story short: There is nothing that actually prevents an installed app from collecting all your data.&lt;p&gt;Progressive Web Apps on the other hard are actively restricted by the browser sandbox and are ganerally a preferred solution from a privacy perspective.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.dev&amp;#x2F;progressive-web-apps&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.dev&amp;#x2F;progressive-web-apps&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cubesnooper</author><text>GrapheneOS allows disabling network for a particular app, alongside the other permission settings. As a rule, I’ll give an app either file permissions or network permissions, but almost never both.&lt;p&gt;A lot of apps are perfectly usable without file access by sharing a file to them from the file manager.&lt;p&gt;GrapheneOS also has “Contact Scopes,” so you can grant an app contacts access (so it thinks) but it’s actually a subset or blank list of contacts.&lt;p&gt;Another feature that’s commonly recommended is using multiple profiles. I often see people use this to run Google apps in an environment isolated from the rest of their data.</text></comment>
<story><title>How mobile apps illegally share personal data</title><url>https://noyb.eu/en/how-mobile-apps-illegally-share-your-personal-data</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jqpabc123</author><text>Long story short: There is nothing that actually prevents an installed app from collecting all your data.&lt;p&gt;Progressive Web Apps on the other hard are actively restricted by the browser sandbox and are ganerally a preferred solution from a privacy perspective.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.dev&amp;#x2F;progressive-web-apps&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;web.dev&amp;#x2F;progressive-web-apps&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tannhaeuser</author><text>Except the only difference is that PWAs in Chrome&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;sandbox&amp;quot; just collect data for Google, and Google alone. Do you believe they do it for the greater good?&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;gadgets&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;gadgets&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;googles-widely-oppos...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>