{"id":270701,"date":"2026-06-11T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/android-apps-track-you-by-default-this-free-app-tells-you-how-bad-it-really-is\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T18:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T22:20:30","slug":"android-apps-track-you-by-default-this-free-app-tells-you-how-bad-it-really-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/android-apps-track-you-by-default-this-free-app-tells-you-how-bad-it-really-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Android apps track you by default \u2014 this free app tells you how bad it really is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/android-apps-track-you-by-default-this-free-app-tells-you-how-bad-it-really-is\/\">Android apps track you by default \u2014 this free app tells you how bad it really is<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/android-apps-track-you-by-default-this-free-app-tells-you-how-bad-it-really-is\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/android-apps-track-you-by-default-this-free-app-tells-you-how-bad-it-really-is\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-11 18:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know that the apps on my smartphone are full of trackers. It&#8217;s an unfortunate part of modern life that most of what we do online or otherwise feeds straight into data collection for big business. Then I found a free Android app that lays it all out and explains <strong>exactly<\/strong> what all the apps on your Android device are tracking. Exodus Privacy is free, incredibly simple to use, and for me, was a timely reminder that I&#8217;ve got unused apps going back years lurking \u2014 and potentially getting away with more than I realize.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tThis hidden Android setting blocks ads across every single app without a VPN<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Ad-free internet is no-longer a subscription you have to pay for.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"every-android-app-comes-with-baggage\">\n                        Every Android app comes with baggage<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"but-did-you-really-agree-to-it\">\n            But did you really agree to it?<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>                              &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/android-apps-track-you-by-default-this-free-app-tells-you-how-bad-it-really-is\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android apps track you by default \u2014 this free app tells you how bad it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":270702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/06\/exodus-privacy-app-with-tracker-lists.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270703,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270701\/revisions\/270703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}