I need to use Messenger for a project im working on, but i dont want it to harvest all my data. how to make it collect as least data as possible?

I am by no means an expert and I’m def interested in what others have to say on this issue as well.

I use Greenify and it allows you to quarantine apps and run them on an emulated version of Android. So there’s one option

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My gripe with Greenify is its not open sourced amd has a bunch trackers. https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.oasisfeng.greenify/latest/

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