App Privacy Report: The Bad Apps

[TheColtr]

I’m starting this thread to call out all the bad apps that show up in app privacy report.

Starting with Verizon app with a whopping 58 trackers, and 68 total domains contacted.

Next is the Bible app by LifeChurch using 13 trackers and a total of 43 domains contacted. Facebook graph being the top domain contacted.

Walgreens has 29 trackers with a total of 41 domains contacted. It too has contacted Facebook graph the most.

What are your bad apps, and what domains are they contacting?

Wiki Update:
APPS
AT&T - 73 however a lot are AT&T itself
Costco - 71 and it is all over the place
Spark - 53 but that depends on the number of accounts added
Apple Store app- access Contacts
YouTube: contacting 173 domains. One of them 806 times.
Instagram: contacting 115 domains, one of them 1581 times.
Amazon: not even opened yet, already contacting 23 domains

WEB
Amazon - 227 most being various Amazon trackers
CNET (via Reddit) 165 - never accessed the site directly just in a Reddit post

 

[m4v3r1ck]

Following… this is an excellent idea!

 

[TheColtr]

I’ll add another call out. The Apple Store app accessed my contacts six days ago, yet it has never “asked” me for access to my contacts nor is there a toggle to turn that off.

 

[m4v3r1ck]

This is going to be a very very long and perhaps worrying thread. Keep them apps coming in folks.

 

[Shirasaki]

I’m far more interested in apple’s first party apps tracking record than any third party app tracking record. Apple is notorious to hold double standards, so it would be interesting to see how much double standards they have.

Btw, maybe first post becomes wiki so everyone can edit? Tho if iOS beta thread is of any indication, I don’t see it being that useful.

 

[m4v3r1ck]

Wiki is a good suggestion.

 

[TheColtr]

I updated this thread to be a wiki.

 

[Blue Hawk]

I’m not much worried about that. It’s an interesting feature. All apple apps are having access to the contacts. Even Safari, TV and the App Store. It should be able to restrict that for Apple apps too.

Most „toxic“ apps:

YouTube: contacting 173 domains. One of them 806 times.

Instagram: contacting 115 domains, one of them 1581 times.

I think these are only domains of theirselves.

 

[mebehere]

Why is my watch accessing my photos? I don’t look at photos on my watch.

 

[Apple_Robert]

Since I installed the update, MR been contacted 16 times and I have barely done anything on my phone. I don’t even use google. Looking over 1Blocker again to make sure I block this tracking crap.

 

[now i see it]

This thread is gunna get sick

 

[ZachApple]

By the way, it appears certificate revocation checks count as a contacted domain, seeing lots of ocsp subdomains.

 

[timeislove]

I’ll add another call out. The Apple Store app accessed my contacts six days ago, yet it has never “asked” me for access to my contacts nor is there a toggle to turn that off.

Checked the privacy report:


To my surprise, a local e payment app by HSBC contacted graph.facebook.com

Same surprise for the Facebook backed WhatsApp did not contact graph.Facebook.com


It looks to me the most obvious tracking domain are graph.Facebook.com
and app-measurement.com

The report also revealed that some apps would contact the internet via mask.iCloud.com which I though would be restricted to safari web browsing via iCloud relay.

 

[kenni417]

so far spotify has been tracked 39 times

 

[Geoff777]

I don't even have a facebook account!

 

[Bandaman]

I don't even have a facebook account!

It doesn't matter. They have an entire shadow profile of you that will continue to keep building just by you using the internet. Privacy is an illusion. You can only take steps to lessen the data they collect about you, but it's impossible to stop it unless you go live an in Amish village.

 

[Abazigal]

Hmm, normal for lockdown?

 

[Blue Hawk]

Hmm, normal for lockdown?

It looks like only Apple content. So I think it’s normal.

I am looking now how Jumbo VPN is affecting this. Jumbo VPN is blocking all trackers

 

[ninecows]

Next is the Bible app by LifeChurch using 13 trackers and a total of 43 domains contacted.

One would think that God wouldn’t need an iDevice to keep track of you

If LifeChurch was truly doing the will of God He would have provided them with the info they want in a better way 😂

 

[southnorth]

The Times newspaper (UK) looks horrific with lots of Google activity. It has double the activity of the next app down.

 

[max2]

This topic is going to be fun!

 

[ninecows]

But… where do you find these info? Under settings > privacy and then…?

I haven’t been able to find anything but I also per default asks apps not to track.

 

[realistlaw]

So do I assume keeping tracking setting on iPhone is not so useful and it's tracking all my experiences?

 

[m4v3r1ck]

This APR feature might be pulled by Apple in a next dot release. * Pinned post *

 

[diego.caraballo]

MR, the worst offender. No surprise, since the iPhone boil when browsing here.