Logging breaches privacy

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I just downloaded the APK from this domain and installed and activated it on my Android 11 OnePlus phone.

I then visited a mildly-dodgy site in a private tab in the DuckDuckGo browser app. I then closed DDG.

The dodgy site’s domain is now shown in Blokada’s logs, which are visible to anyone with access to the device; defeating the purpose of using a private browsing tab.

Suppose, for example, the user has an abusive spouse who checks their phone, so they rely on private browsing.

Solutions to this issue could be:

  • make logging optional
  • make it possible to exclude certain apps from logging
  • make the log editable
  • make the log deletable (entirely or in part)
  • make it possible to suspend logging for set periods
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Hi there,
That’s already possible. Open the activity tab, press the “three dots button” in the upper right corner of the screen and choose “clear”.

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