Hi guys,
I would like to disable (or remove) Advanced Privacy.
A ‘Force Stop’ does not terminate the process (at least foundation.e.advancedprivacy is still in the process list and uses CPU). Even if I disable foundation.e.advancedprivacy via adb, the process continues to run. In addition, the method via adb causes the system to be in a restart loop. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to solve this?
Thank you!
Ah yes… I have /e/os 2.2 running on a Galaxy S10e
Out of curiosity, may I ask why?
Thank you! pm uninstall was the right way. I didn’t think about uninstall because I just wanted to disable it. Now it seems to work! I suppose it’s ok that Advanced Privacy is still available in the settings, right? When I choose it, I just end up on the start screen again.
I just don’t need it. And after I disabled all three options (tracker, location and ip address) in the app and the process still used 2% CPU (by the way also in flight mode), I just wanted to disable it completely.
Are you using any other tracker blocker like TrackerControl?
Talking about advanced privacy, i wanted to know if it was possible to have something similar on lineageOS using separating apps. What would be these apps ? I’ve seen Orbot for hiding the IP, but i don’t know what to use for the others options. For my part, advanced privacy is really useful.
I have advance privacy + Netguard as my setup, I’m quite happy with it.
I also use ADAWAY (f-droid) where you can add lists of trackers to block.
Also I’ve seen from the /e/ Gitlab repo that it was possible to add advanced privacy on another lineage rom, but i’m not really sure about the commands i should use as you have to install it as a system app…
One would need to build it first !
It seems to start to build fine in Android studio, Android Studio Koala | 2024.1.1 | Android Developers but as mentioned in your link
For local build
You can set them in local.properties
MAPBOX_KEY=<insert mapbox public key>
SENTRY_DSN=<insert sentry dsn>
These are commercial proprietary products. I got a trial token from SENTRY, but Mapbox required real name and address for billing before they would release a public key. T&C seemed to indicate that I would not be billed for a trial like this but I stopped at this point!
So advanced privacy is based on non-libre software ? I’ve seen that i can download the apk from the main pipeline. I thought that i could just use adb to push it in the system directory, add the signature and live my life… So is it possible to install it on lineage ? I love this /e/ feature and i’d like to add it on my lineage rom. I feel kinda naked without the tracker blocker…
Not really based on, I think, just using a “paid for” service. However I think what you linked here is intended for building and experimenting with on other systems.
… maybe, but I was just following up on what you did link. Without looking carefully at what you have seen, my understanding is that an /e/OS prebuilt AP .apk would not be transferable to a LineageOS system … unless one just builds /e/OS for the device.
The subject is beyond my knowledge to go much further.
Are you aware of https://trackercontrol.org/ that is a nice app and project, imho.
Strange as /e/OS is based on LOS. Thanks for the explanation @aibd ! I’m aware of that app, but it requires to use a vpn, so you can’t use a true vpn to hide your ip. Plus it doesn’t centralize fake location and orbot. Is there an advanced privacy similar app ? I’ve seen that it is a fork from an older project that is no longer maintened…
My goal is just to recreate a kind of advance privacy in lineage, using 3 differents apps or a centralized app…
