[Privacy] Preventing Android App Support from importing personal data like contacts

@eson are you sure that’s /home/.android and not /home/defaultuser/android_storage? And whatever tool you used, does it have permission to look at /home/.android?

I think it’s mostly the scripts in /usr/libexec/appsupport/. Some of them generate other ad-hoc scripts, iirc. Sometimes they call each other.
The created config is mostly in /tmp/aliendalvik/appsupport iirc.

But a quick grep for “contact” or “database” shows up nothing.

One would have to go through all of them to figure out where they gather configuration and instructions from.

There are also appsupport-* utilities.

BTW there’s a possibility to fill in some extra config without editing the system files: create /usr/libexec/appsupport/alien-generate-extra-config.sh and put what you want done in it. See here.

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