Image comes from the monstrous work the Asahi Linux team did to get Netflix working on Linux on ARM Macbooks: https://asahilinux.org/2024/01/fedora-asahi-new/
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Scary. Recommend any further reading?
Take a look for yourself with a rooted phone.
Blocker will show you all the recievers/services/activities/providers the app uses,
and will allow you to block them.
https://github.com/lihenggui/blocker
Apps often still work correctly with about 80-90% of their recievers/services/providers blocked, since they're spyware, which doesn't add functionality to the app.
XPrivacyLua will allow you to lie to apps when they request sensitive data.
Aditionally it will show you timestamps of what it lied about, to which apps, reveiling what they try to collect on you.
https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacyLua
ClassyShark3xodus allows you to decompile and scan apps on the fly,
to check which well known trackers are embedded into it.
https://bitbucket.org/oF2pks/fdroid-classyshark3xodus
Idk if these apps still do it,
since I have not used them for years,
but that's how I learned about many things like: