I turned on Adaway's DNS logging and let it run for a couple of days to find any extra tracking or ad servers to blacklist. I find a huge number of random gibberish alphabetical strings. I see this on both my devices, one is a OnePlus 3 running Resurrection Remix and with Google apps, the other is a Nexus 9 running LineageOS with no Google services and only F-droid apps.
I don't think there's any malware, I stick to play store and F-droid, and I look for and disable all tracking and ad components using ROM toolbox pro (the old version with the app manager) in addition to running Adaway and not cruising around for pirated APKs.
What could be causing this?
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I have been using admob for three months now...
i have 12 android apps requesting ads from admob...2 of them from amazon app store (added last week)..others from google play..
The problem is that since about 4 or 5 days i can't make any write changes to my account...this includes
1.cant change refresh rate..
2.cant add new apps..
3.cant modify the market url for existing app(for my new apps from amazon store,which has the same package as another app from google play.For admob it should be like same app requesting 2 ads..is that a problem?)
4.cant change colour of ads.
that's all I have checked until now..When I try any of these,i simply gets logged out from admob..then i will have to login once again..
There is no problem with reporting and revenue updates...
I have tried from Chrome and IE..i am from india..
Also,i would like to point out a change in admob login..Earlier I could login to google with another 'google id' while logged in to admob..But now it seems they are connected. Logging out of google logs me out off admob too..
is it just me or anyone else have the same experiance?
anybody?
amelvjose said:
I have been using admob for three months now...
i have 12 android apps requesting ads from admob...2 of them from amazon app store (added last week)..others from google play..
The problem is that since about 4 or 5 days i can't make any write changes to my account...this includes
1.cant change refresh rate..
2.cant add new apps..
3.cant modify the market url for existing app(for my new apps from amazon store,which has the same package as another app from google play.For admob it should be like same app requesting 2 ads..is that a problem?)
4.cant change colour of ads.
that's all I have checked until now..When I try any of these,i simply gets logged out from admob..then i will have to login once again..
There is no problem with reporting and revenue updates...
I have tried from Chrome and IE..i am from india..
Also,i would like to point out a change in admob login..Earlier I could login to google with another 'google id' while logged in to admob..But now it seems they are connected. Logging out of google logs me out off admob too..
is it just me or anyone else have the same experiance?
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any idea?
Hi Developers
With Admob SDK now being a part of Google Play Services, I am not sure about the following:
Will the Admob ads work also on the devices without Google Play Services installed? Or do I have to make sure they are available?
According to Google Play Services developer instructions, availability should be checked using the GooglePlayServicesUtil.isGooglePlayServicesAvailable method. However, I am quite sure I read somewhere, that the ads should work even without Play Services installed on the device...
Thank You
Okay, based on my testing, Google Play Services are not required to be present on the device - Ads are shown as usual.
Apparently, referencing google-play-services_lib is sufficient.
Hi,
I noticed the android pay has been added to device administrators in my android phone. I haven't installed android pay.
I have google play sevices 8.3.01.
I found nothing in google search about it.
Do anyone know if this is a part of google updates?
Let's return to this thread as I observed certain behavior.
Once I installed bank application - google pay device admin appears however I don't have google pay application.
I figured out that it is embedded into google services framework.
I disabled admin using system tuner but despite that admin appears again in random times.
Obviously bank app uses some google's function or google framework scans device periodically and enables it again.
It is not related to use bank app, nor reboot, nor google wallet in general.
I wonder if anyone has an idea what function is triggering admin to be active again and again.
How can I add "Aurora Droid" as an option to the list that pops up in the Android "Open With" menu?
Like many here, I don't use the default Google Play client (normally I have com.android.vending disabled) and (for privacy reasons) I don't have any Samsung or Google account (or any other account) registered in the Android 11 settings of my Samsung Galaxy A32 5G phone.
Settings > Accounts and backup > Manage accounts === none
But it's OK to NOT have a Google Account registered to the phone because the Aurora Store app will spoof a sign-in to the Google Play repository, so I don't need (nor do I want) a Google account set up on the phone.
Even without a Google account set up on the phone, the Google Play app (aka com.android.vending) will will still scan for and manually UPDATE about a score of "google apps" that it knows about (mostly these are the small subset of stock apps which come with the phone initially from the carrier).
Since the Google Play app can only find a tiny subset of the apps on the Google Play repository to update, there's really no value in enabling the Google Play app in my situation.
That's because even if I temporarily enable the Google Play app (aka the "Play Store" app. aka "com.android.vending") will only update a very short list of stock apps (about a score or less which it calls "Google Apps", but that's incorrect nomenclature as com.android.vending will also update pre-installed stock Samsung and T-Mobile apps).
It would be great if I could use the Aurora Store to scan for all the hundreds of apps that have updates on the Google Play repository, so that I can (if I want to) update any set of them at a simple tap of an update button after that list of hundreds of apps that have updates on the Google Play repository is enumerated.
However, as far as I can tell, the Aurora Store doesn't have a setting to manually check for app updates, en masse, on the Google Play repository without actually updating the apps (that is, the Aurora Store has a setting for AUTOMATIC updating, which isn't what I want, and of course, you can type in the name of any given app and the Aurora Store will allow you to update it - but that's also not what I want).
A workaround is to add any decent free ad free gsf free "app updater", where I can then manually update ALL my apps (whose lists are in the hundreds and not just the extremely few that the Google Play app updates).
Update Software Checker - OS Version Info, by Inspire Zone
App Update Checker - Update Software, by Pratham Tech
Software Update Checker : App & Game Updater 2021, by Pnixo
While these update checkers scan the Google Play repository to find HUNDREDS of apps that need updating, not just the score of apps that the com.android.vending app finds), and while these update checkers have a button to update each of the hundreds of apps whose newer version was found on the Google Play repository, ALL of them "open with" a list of apps that does NOT include the Aurora Store (see screenshots below).
How can I add "Aurora Droid" as an option to the list that pops up in the Android "Open With" menu?
To update the record, I still do not know what "magic" adds an app to the "Open with" list, but it happened again in this thread today:
How hard can it be to find a simple text editor that edits any text file stored anywhere you want it to be stored on your internal or external sdcard?
In that case, when you tapped on a text file in some file managers, the "Open with" contained the FOSS "Simple Text Editor" tool by Maxim Starkov (aka MaxiStar); but in other cases, that text editor wasn't part of the list of "Open with" options....
Sigh... I wish someone knew what the "magic" is that puts an application (such as a text file editor) into the "Open with" listing when you tap on a text file to edit it.
Otherwise, it's almost completely arbitrary - and that's sad if Android is really that random that the "Open with" list is essentially left to chance.
Hi, I'm not technically minded and hope you can help me with a question about privacy...
if I do not log in to my google account on a new ordinary Android phone will it will have any real privacy benefits? Would it lessen the amount of data that's automatically collected in the background by google?
(I'm careful about permissions and use Netguard, Fdroid and Aurora, and don't use social media apps on my phone)
Thanks.
Edited 21st April: I managed to get a reply from Rob Braxman that I think has answered my question - "all the telemetry of Google (wifi scanning, firebase, etc) still exists and the IMEI is always communicated" with a non-loggedin Android.
So, as far as I can tell, not logging in makes no difference to the background data that is Automatically collected on a normal Android phone. I only have some control over what info is collected through individual apps by using permissions wisely and having Netguard block phone and data usage when apps don't require them.
I don't think it matters. Also, how will you install apps from the Google Play Store without logging into your Google account?
I think that Google is an internet giant company in the world and it has clear privacy policies for its applications and services. It should be reliable.
Just for your reference.
James_Watson said:
I don't think it matters. Also, how will you install apps from the Google Play Store without logging into your Google account?
I think that Google is an internet giant company in the world and it has clear privacy policies for its applications and services. It should be reliable.
Just for your reference.
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Thanks for your reply, and I appreciate your viewpoint. I'm curious, however, about how much data collection is automatically built in to my normal Android phone's system whether I log into it or not.
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