Please remove StartApp

[IzzySoft]

Just a kindly request: would you please remove the StartApp SDK? With your app running as Xposed module, it has elevated privileges. This access should not be given to proprietary ad and/or tracking libraries, which inherit the permissions of its host app.

Thanks in advance!

[Android1500]

As you want i just removed StartApp SDK but now its hard to alive this project so maybe it will die soon.

[IzzySoft]

Yeah, that's a conflict, and understandable. Not sure if there are any trustable FOSS alternatives (I've not yet found any). But as that's the policy in my repo (no proprietary ad/tracking modules with root apps, health data, children apps, password apps and other apps processing sensitive data), I had to remove the update from my repo and disable auto-updates for now.

Maybe we can have a compromise: could you provide a version without StartApp in addition to the regular one, so I could use that via my repo? The majority of your users will probably install it by other means (XDA, some Xposed repo like EdXposed or LSPosed one – xposed.info unfortunately is down) anyway, so it would not make that much difference to you. Users of my repo are rather out for privacy.

For reference: this is the listing I'm talking about.

[Android1500]

you don't need to worry i just removed and release v1.2.10 without StartApp SDK

[IzzySoft]

PS: Just pulled the new APK and re-established it, thanks! Please take care with versionCode, which was just increased from 129 to 1210 – you can never decrease again as that's what Android uses to tell versions apart: higher versionCode = update, lower = no update possible as it's considered a downgrade.

Update will become visible with the next sync tomorrow (updater runs once per day).

[IzzySoft]

PPS: should I ever find some privacy-friendly foss ad modules, I'll add them here to my corresponding hints.

[IzzySoft]

FYI: I've just raised the issue here: any privacy-friendly, FOSS advertisement modules for Android?

[Android1500]

PS: Just pulled the new APK and re-established it, thanks! Please take care with versionCode, which was just increased from 129 to 1210 – you can never decrease again as that's what Android uses to tell versions apart: higher versionCode = update, lower = no update possible as it's considered a downgrade.

Update will become visible with the next sync tomorrow (updater runs once per day).

Yah i know its not a issue