I have Blokada 5 on Android 12. As an example I installed Telegram-FOSS from F-Droid. Per the Exodus privacy app, it shows this tracker in the Telegram-FOSS app: “Google Firebase Analytics”. So, I thought, if I start up Telegram-FOSS while Blokada is running, I would see that “Google Firebase An…

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The firebase crashlytics you found, is the tracker listed for Telegram. It’s quite common in other apps too, so not unusual to see it already beforehand.

Ok, thanks. How did you know that “ firebase-settings.crashlytics.com ” is the same as “Google Firebase Analytics”? I’m asking this because I don’t know how to go from the trackers the Exodus Privacy app finds to what I should be blocking in Blokada.

I only knew because Firebase is pretty much everywhere in android and Google apps. I think there is a website that lists what trackers are and what they do. Here we are: whotracks.me

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Don't understand how Blokada blocks trackers in apps

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