Exciting news! Trackers being built into the Bitwarden F-Droid app for who knows how long have been removed
https://github.com/bitwarden/mobile/commit/f343a2cdbb5895fb518ed963b30c0d9822db2c74
Previously two trackers were introduced: Google Firebase and Microsoft AppCrashes
Why were there trackers initially?
It’s normal to track crashes and utilization to make software better, I don’t think they tracked to sell data for advertising in bitwarden case
And Google Firebase is what non-degoogled Android uses for notifications
Even more, I think it’s basically the only way. Lichess app got removed from vanilla F-Droid because of that.
It was actually a mistake. They were removed years ago specifically for the fdroid builds, but were reintroduced at some point on accident. Annoying mistake for sure