Exciting news! Trackers being built into the Bitwarden F-Droid app for who knows how long have been removed
https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile/commit/f343a2cdbb5895fb518ed963b30c0d9822db2c74
Previously two trackers were introduced: Google Firebase and Microsoft AppCrashes
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Why were there trackers initially?
It was actually a mistake. They were removed years ago specifically for the fdroid builds, but were reintroduced at some point on accident. Annoying mistake for sure
It’s normal to track crashes and utilization to make software better, I don’t think they tracked to sell data for advertising in bitwarden case
And Google Firebase is what non-degoogled Android uses for notifications
Even more, I think it’s basically the only way. Lichess app got removed from vanilla F-Droid because of that.