TrackerControl
TrackerControl allows users to monitor and control the widespread, ongoing, hidden data collection in mobile apps about user behaviour ('tracking').
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
- Lightweight
Features
- No Root Required
- Block Trackers
- No Tracking
- No registration required
- Dark Mode
- Works Offline
- Ad-free
- Built-in Tracker-blocker
- Firewall
TrackerControl News & Activities
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TrackerControl information
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TrackerControlLicensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 4.9Alternatives
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Security & Privacy, Web BrowsersGitHub repository
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What is TrackerControl?
TrackerControl is an Android app that allows users to monitor and control the widespread, ongoing, hidden data collection in mobile apps about user behaviour ('tracking').
To detect tracking, TrackerControl combines the power of the Disconnect blocklist, used by Firefox, the DuckDuckGo Tracker Radar for mobile apps, and of our in-house blocklist, created from analysing ~2 000 000 apps! To protect your privacy from your ISP, you can also optionally encrypt your DNS traffic using DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH). Additionally, TrackerControl supports custom blocklists and uses the signatures from ClassyShark3xodus/Exodus Privacy for the analysis of tracker libraries within app code.
This approach :
- reveals the companies behind tracking,
- allows to block tracking selectively, and exposes the purposes of tracking, such as analytics or advertising.
- The app also aims to educate about your rights under Data Protection Law, such the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Under the hood, TrackerControl uses Android's VPN functionality, to analyse apps' network communications locally on the Android device. This is accomplished through a local VPN server, to enable network traffic analysis by TrackerControl.
No root is required. Other VPNs or Android's "Private DNS" feature are not supported (due to Android limitations), but TrackerControl provides its own Secure DNS (DNS-over-HTTPS / DoH) feature to protect your DNS traffic. No external VPN server is used, to keep your data safe! TrackerControl even protects you against DNS cloaking, a popular technique to hide trackers in websites and apps.
TrackerControl will always be free and open source, being a research project.
TrackerControl provides
- real-time monitoring of app tracking, including destination companies and countries,
- granular blocking of app tracking,
- one-click data requests as granted under EU Data Protection Legislation,
- ad-blocking using widely available host files,
- tracker library analysis of apps' code, and
- secure DNS using DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) (optional).
Contrary to similar solutions, this application does not intercept SSL connections, minimising privacy risks and allowing for usage on unrooted Android devices. Only the meta data about network communications is logged, and displayed to the users.
Comments and Reviews
This is the best app by far for not only tracker control but it makes traffic logging super easy with filters that allow you easily see other items besides only trackers. It is like using Wireshark could be easily filtered with a couple clicks.
Best feature is you can enable/disable items by individual trackers and it does excellent job on its own of identifying necessary ones and blocking rest. You can block all though and if anything breaks, turn them back on one at a time. That is awesome since some apps use CDNs from some companies that track and have valid function and most other apps you would have to leave other items unblocked to keep open the one essential connection.
And do not even need root. Plus, they keep on improving it further. I am blown away by this after using numerous tools including enterprise ones for years and years now.
It even assisted with catching 3 of my apps breaking their rules and trying to communicate back to analytics that I only knew because of the traffic log.
It's controversial but I think Android is imperfect on security and privacy of data, a lot of things leak from phones and more with Google but thanks to applications like this one help to patch and see what leaks.