firebaselogging-pa.googleapis.com continuously contacted with crash reporter disabled

[vszakats]

Steps to reproduce

1. Settings → Advanced → Disable crash reporter → Enable (= disable crash reporter)
2. Re-launch Nextcloud iOS app
3. Watch DNS queries initiated by the device and see firebaselogging-pa.googleapis.com being queried on startup and while using the app.

Expected behaviour

When crash reporting is disabled, the app should not make request to the related Google service.

Actual behaviour

App looks up the DNS entry firebaselogging-pa.googleapis.com on startup and then continues doing so while using it.

Reasoning or why should it be changed/implemented?

Nextcloud users can rightfully expect/prefer that Google data collection services are not being contacted with crash reporting explicitly disabled.

Environment data

Nextcloud iOS app version: 4.0.1.1
iOS version: 14.6

Maybe related:
firebase/firebase-ios-sdk#8220
firebase/firebase-ios-sdk#5837

[vszakats]

The suggested (and subsequently confirmed) solution is to add this key-value pair to the app's Info.plist file:

<key>FirebaseDataCollectionDefaultEnabled</key>
<false/>

[fireglow]

I'm also seeing this.
I feel the App Stores "App Privacy" needs to be updated to show that diagnostic data is being collected.

[vszakats]

Tracking requests seem to be no longer made as of Nextcloud iOS 4.0.6. But there was no commit or changelog message about it.

@marinofaggiana: Can you confirm that a fix have been applied/released for this issue?

[vszakats]

I'm closing this as resolved, based on the observed DNS request activity alone.

[juju4]

I see firebaselogging-pa.googleapis.com in my proxy logs each time i do a manual refresh.
Crash reporter disabled

Nexcloud liquid for iOS 4.3.1.0
iOS 15.4.1