We analyzed 450 apps and found location trackers in every one

• tracker-control-android

  113 1,835 6.1 Java

  TrackerControl Android: monitor and control trackers and ads.

  

LineageOS is Android. The usual Google Play store is available on it (after installation of gapps). Apparently Privacy Guard is gone in the latest LineageOS. If you're on Android, give this a try: https://github.com/OxfordHCC/tracker-control-android

• xoth_location_tracker_investigation

  1 44 0.0

  Investigation Xoth: Location Trackers

  

https://github.com/expressvpn/xoth_location_tracker_investig...

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Telegram-FOSS

  39 2,702 7.8 Java

  Unofficial, FOSS-friendly fork of the original Telegram client for Android

  

As always, I would recommend to use an AOSP build without google service integration (like LineageOS builds).

I'd also recommend to use AppWarden [1] and the Exodus project [2] to verify for yourself what your Apps do behind the scenes.

Regarding an App masquerading as Telegram: Use the Telegram FOSS fork [3] which disables Firebase's trackers.

[1] https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AppWarden

[2] https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/

[3] https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS

• Netguard

  136 40 6.6 Java

  Discontinued A simple way to block access to the internet per app

'NetGuard'[1] is also great tool to control/log network requests of apps, but uses VPN since it functions without root.

[1]https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard

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