Google trackers in Android app

This discussion was created from comments split from: Available for beta testing: Zotero for Android.
  • Hey hey
    According to the exodus privacy tool, the beta app includes Google trackers, any chance to get rid of them before the official release?
    Thanks for the great work
    https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/org.zotero.android/latest/
  • There are no "trackers" in the app. We use Crashlytics — now owned by Google and part of Firebase — for crash reporting because it's the first-party crash-reporting solution for Android, the same way that crash reports get sent to Apple on iOS. Crashlytics seems to reuse some of Firebase's analytics machinery for crash reporting, but that's not the same as our using Google Analytics. Nowhere in our code do we ever initialize Google Analytics, nor do we do things like call "setUserId" to distinguish crash reports between users. We even specifically disable Firebase analytics collection in the app manifest for good measure.
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