Privacy

31993 readers

387 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

Chat rooms

[Matrix/Element]Dead
Discord

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Telemetry in Flutter? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

7 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Yeah, I'm sure this is a pretty newbie question, but here I go:

What ammount of telemetry have Flutter by default? And there is a way to deactivate it? I wanna learn this technology to develop some Mobile Applications, but I'm (honestly) worried about this, because you know, Google dirty techniques, etc.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] sir_reginald 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

if you're a developer, there's a very easy and practical way of testing this without trusting anyone's (not even Google's) word:

compile the most basic of flutter apps or some demo and see if the app makes any kind of request to the internet.

edit: a single web search reveals that Flutter has indeed Google telemetry enabled by default. developing your web searching skills is a good habit for developers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think the telemetry is only for the Flutter developer tools, not the apps themselves that you create with them.

[–] sir_reginald 5 points 11 months ago

that's very plausible, I didn't stop to look into it further than a quick read.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

edit: a single web search reveals that Flutter has indeed Google telemetry enabled by default. developing your web searching skills is a good habit for developers.

I already know this, just flutter config --disable-analytics solve this problem.

But there are more than this. For example, Flutter itself doesn't work correctly. It needs the Android SDK (that is installed separately). And with this you need to accept the licenses and other stuff. That's the point.

compile the most basic of flutter apps or some demo and see if the app makes any kind of request to the internet.

How can I intercept this traffic quickly?

[–] sir_reginald 3 points 11 months ago

How can I intercept this traffic quickly?

Assuming an Android app, this is the app that I use: https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/com.emanuelef.remote_capture/

If you're building a program for desktop, Wireshark works great.