OSMAnd is spyware that leaks your travel history to the OSMAnd developers, even if you have analytics/telemetry turned off!
https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd/issues/15058
https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd-iOS/issues/2115
This unethical and consent-violating data leak exists in both the iOS and Android versions. It's not an accident - they are deliberately phoning home with a unique identifier.
@hans it sends a unique and permanent tracking id on every map download.
@hans client ip is city level geolocation. when you send a persistent unique id from changing client ips over time, i know which cities you were in, and when.
@hans this has nothing to do with which maps you download. you don't seem to understand ip geolocation.
Sure, maybe OsmAnd could work without that ID, but again, I find your claim far fetched.
@hans it’s fine if you don’t care about your own personal privacy but that doesn’t give anyone license to track people who do (and don’t consent to such tracking)
It's a good thing that you told the world about this, so that people have a choice. Not going to be easy, I think, because every alternative that I know of is a far bigger privacy risk, but hey. But telling the world by calling it "spyware" and "leaking travel history" is a bridge too far, I think.
@hans if it weren't literally designed to discern one user from another, no unique identifier would be necessary.
that's because you don't understand tracking.
Yeah, let's go with that.