Ios: Tracker in iOS app (Crashlytics)?

Created on 5 Apr 2019 · 7Comments · Source: nextcloud/ios

There seems to be a tracker of Google/Crashlytics integrated in the iOS app of Nextcloud.
The Android app was also affected, but there the trackers were already removed.

For more information, see here and here.

Can someone of the developers confirm or decline this issue?

If trackers are present in the app, these should be removed. Privacy is one of the core principles of Nextcloud and a tracker doesn't fit in the picture there.

Source

DecaTec

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cc @marinofaggiana

MorrisJobke on 5 Apr 2019

I replied in the original issue here https://help.nextcloud.com/t/tracker-in-nextcloud-client-app-for-android-on-ios-too/50473/8 …

in short, the apps don't record or share any personal data, there used to be some minimal analytics in some apps but that is disabled since a while already. For push notifications we have to connect to google.

jospoortvliet on 5 Apr 2019

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That you have to connect to Google for notifications, ok.
But a tracker (Crashlytics) should really be removed from the app as it's not clear what data gets submitted there.
In the Android app it was already removed, so it can't be _that_ important. The privacy should be more important than some crash analytic data imho.

DecaTec on 6 Apr 2019

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@DecaTec you can look in the source if you are not sure what data is submitted - it is all there. Stability of the app seems quite important to me, don't you agree? We'll make it configurable, but imho it should be on by default.

jospoortvliet on 9 Apr 2019

Sure, stability is quite important. The question is, if Crashlytics is such important for stability.
I just mean, the Android app removed the tracker. Did this result in more instability in the Android app?
Are there no other possibilities to collect crash reports than a tracker?

DecaTec on 9 Apr 2019

The next version will the possibility of 'Disable crash reporter' :

https://github.com/nextcloud/ios/commit/195439d868a7c92c9ebef555f650456c4a9a6dfc

The Crashlytics is the best service for the analysis of issue, and this is very important for an application that has over 860.000 installation with an 4,7 stars of rating, any other speech is not of my interest.

Cheers
m.