- Tracker Blocking Modes: Choose between minimal, standard, and strict blocking to balance privacy and app compatibility. - DuckDuckGo Tracker Radar: Integrated DDG's mobile-specific tracker detection for better coverage. - Improved DNS: Better reliability, safer defaults, and support for Encrypted DNS. - New Insights: View statistics on blocked trackers and tracking companies, directly from the main screen. - Enhanced Blocking: Support for multiple blocklists and auto-updates. - Show Unprotected Apps: New option to easily see which apps are not yet protected. - Removed IP-Based Blocking: Removed faulty IP-based tracker blocking for improved reliability. - Replaced Battery/Data Saver Popups: Intrusive popups replaced with a streamlined troubleshooting flow. - Simpler Settings: "Monitor" is now "Exclude from VPN" for clarity. - UI Cleanup: Cleaner interface with improved scrolling and search performance. - Performance: 50% smaller app size, faster startup, and improved battery life. - Revamped Analysis: Faster and cleaner tracker library scanner. - New Translations: Added new translations. - Bug Fixes: Fixed several crashes and improved stability. - Start migration to new Android Material 3 design

TrackerControl is an Android app that allows users to monitor and control the widespread, ongoing, hidden data collection in mobile apps about user behaviour ('tracking'). To detect tracking, TrackerControl combines the power of the Disconnect blocklist, used by Firefox, the DuckDuckGo Tracker Radar for mobile apps, and of our in-house blocklist, created from analysing ~2 000 000 apps! To protect your privacy from your ISP, you can also optionally encrypt your DNS traffic using DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH). Additionally, TrackerControl supports custom blocklists and uses the signatures from ClassyShark3xodus/Exodus Privacy for the analysis of tracker libraries within app code. This approach - reveals the companies behind tracking, - allows to block tracking selectively, and - exposes the purposes of tracking, such as analytics or advertising. The app also aims to educate about your rights under Data Protection Law, such the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Under the hood, TrackerControl uses Android's VPN functionality, to analyse apps' network communications locally on the Android device. This is accomplished through a local VPN server, to enable network traffic analysis by TrackerControl. No root is required. Other VPNs or Android's "Private DNS" feature are not supported (due to Android limitations), but TrackerControl provides its own Secure DNS (DNS-over-HTTPS / DoH) feature to protect your DNS traffic. No external VPN server is used, to keep your data safe! TrackerControl even protects you against DNS cloaking, a popular technique to hide trackers in websites and apps. TrackerControl will always be free and open source, being a research project. TrackerControl offers three Blocking Modes: Minimal - Tracker lists: DuckDuckGo only - Essential services: Allowed - Ambiguous shared IPs: Allowed - Granular per-tracker control: No - Auto-exclude known incompatible apps from VPN: Yes - Current default for new installs: Yes Standard - Tracker lists: All (X-Ray, Disconnect, DDG) - Essential services: Allowed - Ambiguous shared IPs: Allowed - Granular per-tracker control: Yes - Auto-exclude known incompatible apps from VPN: No - Current default for new installs: No Strict - Tracker lists: All - Essential services: Blocked - Ambiguous shared IPs: Blocked - Granular per-tracker control: Yes - Auto-exclude known incompatible apps from VPN: No - Current default for new installs: No In practice, the modes differ as follows: - Minimal uses only DuckDuckGo's mobile tracker list, blocks only trackers that DuckDuckGo marks as safe to block, does not offer per-tracker toggles, and automatically excludes known incompatible apps such as browsers from the VPN for compatibility. - Standard uses all tracker sources, keeps per-app and per-tracker controls enabled, and allows the Content category by default to reduce breakage. - Strict uses the same tracker sources as Standard, but also blocks the Content category and blocks ambiguous mixed shared-IP cases where a tracker hostname and a non-tracker hostname resolve to the same IP. TrackerControl currently defaults to Minimal blocking mode for new installs. All versions allow you to change the blocking mode in Settings. Highlights TrackerControl provides - real-time monitoring of app tracking, including destination companies and countries, - granular blocking of app tracking, - one-click data requests as granted under EU Data Protection Legislation, - ad-blocking using widely available host files, - tracker library analysis of apps' code, and - secure DNS using DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) (optional). Contrary to similar solutions, this application does not intercept SSL connections, minimising privacy risks and allowing for usage on unrooted Android devices. Only the meta data about network communications is logged, and displayed to the users. Privacy Notice TrackerControl does not send any personal data off your device. TrackerControl allows users to monitor the network communications on their Android device. This network data qualifies as personal data, but is only processed locally on the user's device. If the user consents, TrackerControl contacts the Google Play Store to retrieve further information about the users' apps. The app automatically contacts GitHub to check for updates, which can be disabled from the app settings. No personal data is ever shared, other than what is strictly necessary for network communications (e.g. IP address). TrackerControl uses the ACRA plugin. This is considered to be a 'good' tracker. It's open-source, and could be used to collect crash reports automatically to a server–TrackerControl DOES NOT do this. Instead, the user must manually report crashes manually, via e-mail. ACRA shows a dialog to do this in TrackerControl. TrackerControl itself never sends any personal data off your device. Cookie Policy TrackerControl does not use cookies of any kind. The only information saved on the user's device is non-identifying and strictly necessary for the operation of TrackerControl: - a database of network communications, and - user settings. This information is kept on the user's device until app data is removed manually by the user (e.g. by uninstalling). License Except where indicated otherwise, this project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0.