TC Slim – Study app tracking

Konrad Kollnig

About this app

FOLLOWING GOOGLE'S PLAY STORE POLICIES, THIS VERSION OF TRACKERCONTROL DOES NOT BLOCK TRACKING.

TrackerControl Slim is an Android app that allows users to STUDY the widespread, ongoing, hidden data collection in mobile apps about user behaviour (‘tracking’).

To detect tracking, TrackerControl combines the power of the Disconnect tracker list, used by Firefox, and our in-house tracker list, created from analysing ~2 000 000 apps!

Additionally, TrackerControl detects tracker libraries in apps using the signatures from ClassyShark3xodus/Exodus Privacy for the analysis of tracker libraries within app code.

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. To establish this VPN, TrackerControl expands on the work from NetGuard.

No root is required, other VPNs or Private DNS are not supported. No external VPN server is used, to keep your data safe!

Ratings and reviews

The best privacy app I have seen. This version shows you how prevalent tracking is, and which apps are the culprits. The full version, available elsewhere, actually let's you block the trackers. I'm guessing Google doesn't allow the full version in the play store because it totally circumvents their business model. Is there any way to allow this app to work with VPNs? That would make it perfect.

It's a must have for any privacy concerned user out there. In order to block specific trackers for apps, I'd highly recommend everyone to install the full version found on a different app store (open source haha). The dev's really nice and helpful too and you're sure to have a great time in the Telegram community!

Using the full version of the app as well and have nothing, but good things to say about it. It is so good, that it gets installed in any of my familly devices firstly, even before google account creation. Way better than anything in its class, even blokada do not stand a chance. Thanks and keep up the good work!

What’s new

- clarify that version on PlayStore is 'Slim' release
- Fix bugs, and update dependencies + translations + host lists