[CLOSED][APP][XPOSED][6.0+] XPrivacyLua - Android privacy manager [UNSUPPORTED]

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M66B

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It's just an issue with edxposed (or with magisk, because magisk who creates the selinux policy file. anyway, both didn't solve the problem).
And there's nothing corelated with xprivacylua.
Xprivacylua can't creates files wanted for working perfectly.
Many loves for xprivacylua perpetuality :love:
The chance for "perpetuality" didn't really get higher after your comments. Even this comment seems rather cynical. I get already enough disappointing messages about this project via other channels. Why would I even consider to continue with the project? I am a loyal person, but everything has its limits. Referencing a rather subjective blog, to put it nicely, which still angers me didn't help in any case. Think careful about your next comment.
 

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The chance for "perpetuality" didn't really get higher after your comments. Even this comment seems rather cynical. I get already enough disappointing messages about this project via other channels. Why would I even consider to continue with the project? I am a loyal person, but everything has its limits. Referencing a rather subjective blog, to put it nicely, which still angers me didn't help in any case. Think careful about your next comment.

Please, leave me. Me, you and anybody cares for what you think about me.
Don't be angry with me.
I love you and all your projects.
You have my thanks forever, you can be sure.
Xprivacylua certainly is one of the best app already developed, just because its structure.
I think the future of Xprivacylua would be some thing like a self-owned/built-in xposed.
Why not?
There is any prohibition for dreaming ?
I am totally happy for purchased Xprivacylua pro and convinced friends to do same. :)

As you can see, I love you since 13/June/2016 ❤
 

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Please, leave me. Me, you and anybody cares for what you think about me.
Don't be angry with me.
I love you and all your projects.
You have my thanks forever, you can be sure.
Xprivacylua certainly is one of the best app already developed, just because its structure.
.... ❤

For me the same applies.
Even if I am very quiet here I use XPrivacyLUA every day and I am happy that is still working very good. Gladly I am on Android 9 and 10 with all my devices and I am not keen to get Android 11 to soon as everything is running good and smooth. 😅
Every cent for the license for XPrivacyLUA pro was a very good invested cent. I have a look from time to time into the logs which app is trying to get recurring information from me which are not relevant for the purpose of the app and get a smile from side to side with a good feeling that the app is only getting faked information. :)
 

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For me the same applies.
Even if I am very quiet here I use XPrivacyLUA every day and I am happy that is still working very good. Gladly I am on Android 9 and 10 with all my devices and I am not keen to get Android 11 to soon as everything is running good and smooth. 😅
Every cent for the license for XPrivacyLUA pro was a very good invested cent. I have a look from time to time into the logs which app is trying to get recurring information from me which are not relevant for the purpose of the app and get a smile from side to side with a good feeling that the app is only getting faked information. :)

I also love being able to get recurring informations. I had already suggested this for the M66B, but for him, it is best that only the last information obtained appears.
In the past, with XPrivacy, it was possible to obtain recurring information even when it was not faked. It can be excessive, but it's very very appreciated for debugging and deep analysis. I would be really happy for paying again for a debugging pro companion app :love:
 

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Feature request:
xprivacyLua PRO - allow disabling autodownloading of hook definitions. If one wants to block the internet connections with netguard, xprivacy will retry indefinetely.

xprivacyLua PRO - allow importing only hook definitions(i didn't try this feature from "manage hook definitions" > hamburger menu, but i believe it imports all settings, similar to "import all settings" feature in side panel, which i suppose includes all the individual app configurations)
 

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Feature request:
xprivacyLua PRO - allow disabling autodownloading of hook definitions. If one wants to block the internet connections with netguard, xprivacy will retry indefinetely.

xprivacyLua PRO - allow importing only hook definitions(i didn't try this feature from "manage hook definitions" > hamburger menu, but i believe it imports all settings, similar to "import all settings" feature in side panel, which i suppose includes all the individual app configurations)
The hook definitions will not be downloaded automatically, but on demand when you open the repository screen.

I have no plans for new features and given the state of EdXposed, which was kicked out of of the Magisk repo recently, I am not sure if I even will update XPrivacyLua for Android 11.
 
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The hook definitions will not be downloaded automatically, but on demand when you open the repository screen.

I have no plans for new features and given the state of EdXposed, which was kicked out of of the Magisk repo recently, I am not sure if I even will update XPrivacyLua for Android 11.

Oh sad to hear about that. Will there be any replacement for xPrivacyLua on Android 11? Will the donations cover the pro feature of the new alternative?
 

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Oh sad to hear about that. Will there be any replacement for xPrivacyLua on Android 11? Will the donations cover the pro feature of the new alternative?
The donations never covered the time I have put into this project, but luckily this project was never about the money.

If there is no reliable (Ed)Xposed, a project like this is not feasible. You cannot build a house without a stable foundation.
 

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The donations never covered the time I have put into this project, but luckily this project was never about the money.

If there is no reliable (Ed)Xposed, a project like this is not feasible. You cannot build a house without a stable foundation.

Apparently, there is still some interest left in making Edxposed compatible with updated Magisk version(s) - I believe the reply in the screenshot is by the maintainer of Edxposed
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Apparently, there is still some interest left in making Edxposed compatible with updated Magisk version(s) - I believe the reply in the screenshot is by the maintainer of Edxposed
Given that this thread is being filled with questions about EdXposed, I am afraid that there is a structural problem. We can always hope for the best though.
 

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The hook definitions will not be downloaded automatically, but on demand when you open the repository screen.

I have no plans for new features and given the state of EdXposed, which was kicked out of of the Magisk repo recently, I am not sure if I even will update XPrivacyLua for Android 11.

I just saw XprivacyLuaPro notification again ("Checkin for update ..."), even if i disallowed internet connection for it and I did not open the repository screen.
 

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Such a bummer with all the issues with edxposed on android 11. M66B has done what he could for years! I for one appreciate all the apps. I have bought them all.

So what other apps are available that will protect user information? Can netguard somehow be expanded to offer some user protection?
 

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I just saw XprivacyLuaPro notification again ("Checkin for update ..."), even if i disallowed internet connection for it and I did not open the repository screen.
This is checking for a new version of the pro companion app, not downloading from the hook repository. This cannot be disabled.
 

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Such a bummer with all the issues with edxposed on android 11. M66B has done what he could for years! I for one appreciate all the apps. I have bought them all.

So what other apps are available that will protect user information? Can netguard somehow be expanded to offer some user protection?
Without access to the Android internals with something like (Ed)Xposed, the options are very limited.
 

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This is checking for a new version of the pro companion app, not downloading from the hook repository. This cannot be disabled.

Why it is not allowed to be disabled? Forgive my doubts. But one could find this behavior a little fishy, since the pro companion is not open sourced in github and it is hosted separately. Is there a reason for which you didn't follow the same approach to activating pro features as for fairemail and netguard?



Such a bummer with all the issues with edxposed on android 11. M66B has done what he could for years! I for one appreciate all the apps. I have bought them all.

So what other apps are available that will protect user information? Can netguard somehow be expanded to offer some user protection?

Some emergent open source apps I found lately are Warden and "AM Pre-release" which has great potential. I know xprivacy has some other low level features, but this is the best bet for now i suppose on Android 11. Personally I didn't test them on Android 11, but on Android 10 work fine, so use with care.
 

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Why it is not allowed to be disabled? Forgive my doubts. But one could find this behavior a little fishy, since the pro companion is not open sourced in github and it is hosted separately. Is there a reason for which you didn't follow the same approach to activating pro features as for fairemail and netguard?
Simply because some people do not update, still ask for support, wasting a lot of time to only discover that a stone old version of the app is being used.

If you are worried, just use NetGuard or another firewall to block the connection.
 
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Why it is not allowed to be disabled? Forgive my doubts. But one could find this behavior a little fishy, since the pro companion is not open sourced in github and it is hosted separately. Is there a reason for which you didn't follow the same approach to activating pro features as for fairemail and netguard?
I would probably choose for another approach now, as I did with FairEmail and NetGuard, which is simpler for everybody, but I am not going to put effort into changing this anymore.

I will open source the pro companion app when I stop supporting this project.

Some emergent open source apps I found lately are Warden and "AM Pre-release" which has great potential. I know xprivacy has some other low level features, but this is the best bet for now i suppose on Android 11. Personally I didn't test them on Android 11, but on Android 10 work fine, so use with care.
I don't think that Warden and "AM Pre-release" are a replacement for XPrivacyLua, but it might be a start.
 
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    XPrivacyLua

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    Really simple to use privacy manager for Android 6.0 Marshmallow and later (successor of XPrivacy).

    Revoking Android permissions from apps often let apps crash or malfunction. XPrivacyLua solves this by feeding apps fake data instead of real data.

    Features:

    • Simple to use
    • Manage any user or system app
    • Extensible
    • Multi-user support
    • Free and open source

    See here for all details, including installation instructions and download link.

    Please read the frequently asked questions before asking a question.

    This XDA thread is about using the latest version of XPrivacyLua. Off topic comments are allowed as long they are related to XPrivacyLua and are in the general interest of the followers of this thread, but anything not related to privacy is not allowed.

    If XPrivacyLua doesn't work and/or when "module not running or updated" is shown, this is almost always caused by an Xposed problem.

    Discussions about purchases are not allowed here, please contact me via here instead.

    XPrivacyLua is being maintained and community supported, but new features won't be added anymore.

    Custom hook definitions will always be part of XPrivacyLua, but there will be community support only. This means that I won't respond to questions about defining custom hooks anymore. See this thread for the reasons.

    If you value your privacy, please consider to support this project with a donation or by purchasing pro features.


    XPrivacyLua is not a permission manager, but a privacy manager. XPrivacyLua doesn't block things and doesn't revoke permissions, but does replace real data by fake data. This means you can grant Android permissions to an app and still let XPrivacyLua prevent the app from seeing privacy sensitive data. Revoking permissions can result in an app refusing to work and/or to crash. However, replacing real by fake data generally doesn't let an app crash.

    Currently restrictions are quite crude because they mostly replace real data by no data. For example restricting the contacts app from getting contacts will result in an empty contact list. In the near future it might be made possible to select the data an app may see, for example just one group of contacts.

    About feature requests and bug reports:

    The goal is to have a tool that can properly protect the privacy of many in the near future. However, it isn't paid work, so I do whatever I like whenever I like it.

    You can request features in this XDA forum. I will read them, but I will not respond to them and they might or might not be implemented. If I know for sure something will not be implemented, I will let you know.

    You can report any problem you have here. There will be no issue tracker on GitHub.

    For now I have decided to not implement restrictions that are useful to prevent tracking only. There are simply too many data items that can be used for tracking and it would take too much time to develop restrictions for all these data items.

    The basic idea is to restrict only things that 'define' you, so which contacts you have, where you are, which apps you use, etc.

    Maybe we can widen the definition of things that the core of XPL covers to "What defines you, and what can be used to spie on you"? This would include camera/audio, but not tracking.

    XPrivacyLua is pretty feature complete and will be maintained and supported and when there is a need new hook definitions will be added to better protect your privacy. For the rest this FAQ applies:

    https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacyLua/blob/master/FAQ.md#FAQ4

    As said before, development will also depend on Xposed development, which is just minimal unfortunately.

    XDA thanks and donations are appreciated.

    XPrivacyLua is supported with Xposed only. There is no support for VirtualXposed and TaiChi.
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    I have just released beta version 0.5 in the Xposed repository.

    The XPrivacyLua framework and user interface seems to be stable enough to call this a beta release.

    Besides several bug fixes and improvements two new restrictions were added:
    • Read account name, which mostly holds your e-mail address and will be replace by 'privacy@private.com' when restricted
    • Read clipboard, which will be replaced by the text 'Private' when restricted

    Furthermore the ability to restrict Android system (be careful!) and to restrict system apps was added. It is possible to restrict all of these individually (XPrivacy could not do that).

    Be sure to take a look at the help page in the app again (use the ?-icon), since there were some useful hints added.

    If you appreciate what I am building here, please let me know by means of an XDA thanks and/or a donation, so that I don't get the feeling 'What am I doing this for?'.
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    I have just released alpha version 0.12 in the Xposed repository.

    This version has been redesigned for Android Oreo compatibility. The user interface and the restrictions work properly for me, but be aware that a lot has been changed on the inside ("it is bigger on the inside", lol), also for earlier Android versions. There is one thing I know of that needs improving and that is that the user interface might be updated too often with a lot of restrictions, which might cause delays and hangs. I will look into this tomorrow.

    This change was necessary, but it was a lot of work, so XDA thanks and donations are appreciated.
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    I have just released beta version 0.25 in the Xposed repository.

    Changelog:

    With this release XPrivacyLua restriction's can be compared with XPrivacy's. There are now over 100 restriction definitions!

    XDA thanks and donations are appreciated.
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    @CHEF-KOCH You have been given enough time to respond here. Now I just think it is pretty cowardly to write critical about XPrivacyLua, but not to tell what can actually be improved, especially because you were invited to do so.

    I still like to hear how XPrivacyLua can be improved, but I don't want to hear what is wrong with XPrivacyLua. You'll need to keep the scope of XPrivacyLua in mind (in short: privacy, not security), see the opening post and previous discussions about this for more information.

    Also, if you really know better, I like to see an original work from your hands to prove that. Actions speak louder than words.

    As it is now, you are discouraging one of the few people in the world who really did something substantial to improve privacy on Android. And don't go talking about VPNs, TOR, etc because your private information, like your contacts, will still leak.

    I also think you are pretty ungrateful for what I did so far.

    To others: if you see someone reference one of his blogs, please reference this comment in response.

    Edit: if you agree with this, please add an XDA thanks to this comment, so it will show up in the right column as a reference for others.