Telemetry in Flutter?

possiblylinux127, 7 months ago

I don’t think Flutter itself has any such anti feature. Its simply a toolkit

joeldebruijn, 7 months ago

For me an indicator would be Cwtch.

Its an onion adress based metadata surveillance resistant chat app with a high focus on privacy.

Developed in. … Flutter.

git.openprivacy.ca/cwtch.im/cwtch-ui

sir_reginald, 7 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

if you’re a developer, there’s a very easy and practical way of testing this without trusting anyone’s (not even Google’s) word:

compile the most basic of flutter apps or some demo and see if the app makes any kind of request to the internet.

edit: a single web search reveals that Flutter has indeed Google telemetry enabled by default. developing your web searching skills is a good habit for developers.

poVoq, 7 months ago

I think the telemetry is only for the Flutter developer tools, not the apps themselves that you create with them.

sir_reginald, 7 months ago

that’s very plausible, I didn’t stop to look into it further than a quick read.

RuikkaaPrus, 7 months ago

edit: a single web search reveals that Flutter has indeed Google telemetry enabled by default. developing your web searching skills is a good habit for developers.

I already know this, just flutter config --disable-analytics solve this problem.

But there are more than this. For example, Flutter itself doesn’t work correctly. It needs the Android SDK (that is installed separately). And with this you need to accept the licenses and other stuff. That’s the point.

compile the most basic of flutter apps or some demo and see if the app makes any kind of request to the internet.

How can I intercept this traffic quickly?

sir_reginald, 7 months ago

How can I intercept this traffic quickly?

Assuming an Android app, this is the app that I use: www.f-droid.org/…/com.emanuelef.remote_capture/

If you’re building a program for desktop, Wireshark works great.