I Decompiled the White House's New App

Everyone knows your location

How I tracked myself down using leaked location data in the in-app ads, and what I found along the way.

Redditors ask, Cybernews answers: Can you really “deGoogle” your Android?

Step-by-step guide to Android privacy. Cybernews provides tips on how to stop tracking, limit Google data collection, deGoogle Samsung devices, and reduce app surveillance.

Report: Google preps ‘Jarvis’ AI agent that works in Chrome

Google might be ready to share more about agents that work in Chrome and are powered by Gemini 2.0 this December with Project Jarvis.

Google teases an Android desktop mode, made with Samsung’s help

Google’s own version of DeX.

run web app on phone at DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

Your ‘App’ Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you…)

I was asked to install a mobile app to get access to the itinerary of a trip to Disneyland I'm taking with the kids. Fuck that noise: couldn't it have just been a Web page? An hour of reverse-engineering later, it is, and it's superior in virtually every way to the "app" that it replaces.

Skywalker - Apps on Google Play

App to explore ATProto based social media networks, e.g. Bluesky

What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

We recently published a blog post with our reaction to the new Google Developer Program and how it impacts your freedom to use the devices that you own in th...

GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social)

Apple and Google are gradually expanding their use of hardware-based attestation. They're convincing a growing number of services to adopt it. Google's Play Integrity API and Apple's App Attest API are very similar. Apple brought it to the web via Privacy Pass, which Google intends on doing too.

Two Ways to Build Location on ATProto: Geo Markers vs. Embedded Check-ins

A technical comparison of architectural approaches for location-aware apps on Bluesky

Decentralizing My Smartphone With Single Purpose Devices

Lately, I’ve become nostalgic for the days before smartphones, when the internet was a place we went to deliberately, and not a place that lived on all of ou...

Experiments with Google

Since 2009, coders have created thousands of amazing experiments using Chrome, Android, AI, WebVR, AR and more. We're showcasing projects here, along with helpful tools and resources, to inspire others to create new experiments.

Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps

Important changes to Android devices took effect starting Monday.

bsky.app | WhoTracks.Me

Explore the tracking landscape of bsky.app on WhoTracks.Me, revealing the most common trackers like Sentry and their impact on privacy

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