r/degoogle • u/Bak_69 • 8h ago

Question Bitwarden and Startpage being tracked by google?

I turned on settings to block app tracking on DuckDuck Go and i saw that google tried to track my data from Bitwarden and Startpage and i started to question the privacy of those two apps.

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u/slashtab Free as in Freedom 8h ago

If you install it from playstore, google make it necessary to include their binaries in app, so you'll have that.

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u/Direct-Turnover1009 6h ago

Didn’t know this, I’m gonna use the apk instead.

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u/slashtab Free as in Freedom 4h ago

If your apk provider is ripping it from playstore then you'll still have those binaries in apk. Only way is if developer publish it somewhere else without those files...in case of Bitwarden it does.

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u/Direct-Turnover1009 4h ago

Where can I get the apk?

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u/Top-Classroom-6994 2h ago

Bitwarden has an official fdroid repository. Get it from FDroid(but you have to add the official bitwarden repository)

https://mobileapp.bitwarden.com/fdroid/repo/

It has the benefit of not having google binaries AND auto updating

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u/HEaRiX 8h ago

Related to Bitwarden: https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/1mtqs5p/comment/n9dfv25

Maybe something similar with Startpage

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u/dwbitw 6h ago

From: https://bitwarden.com/help/security-faqs/#q-what-third-party-services-libraries-or-identifiers-are-used-in-my-bitwarden-account

Firebase Cloud Messaging (often mistaken for a tracker) is used only for push notifications related to sync and performs absolutely no tracking functions