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

[Schroeder09]

where do they talk about it?

It was a notification inside the lsposed manager and was available through the LSPOSED repository from within the app.

 

[VD171]

where do they talk about it?

LSPosed developers does NOT talk about xposed modules.
They talk about xposed framework only.

 

[Schroeder09]

Does anyone have any tricks, methodology, or lost of things they're currently restricting on Google framework, carrier services, Google play services, or the Google play store? Any single restriction I add to carrier services seems to break something. I lose the continued conversation with Gboard (colored flashing indicator on around Gboard mic for talk to text), or chat messages stop sending and receiving. I've tried multiple combinations and enabling single restrictions at a time. Anything I check seems to trigger a fault and any changes made only take after a reboot unlike on some other apps. The trouble I'm having restricting carrier services is making me hesitant to restrict any google framework or play service aspects.

 

[M66B]

I am considering to terminate support on January 5th 2023 because:

• Not many people use the module anymore
• The support of the project is pretty limited
• Android has become more privacy-friendly over time
• The LSposed developers do not support the module (*)
• The module is too often misused, for example to cheat in games, etc.
• I have received enough hate mail

(*) They refuse to add an API to access scopes, resulting a too many questions and also loosing users.

This means that XPrivacyLua has been supported for exactly 5 years. XPrivacy was first released on June 12, 2013, so that's in total about 10 years of XPrivacy(Lua). I think that is a pretty long time.

 

[M66B]

To elaborate on not supported by the LSposed developers:

[TODO] API for modules to get/add activated module scope · Issue #9 · LSPosed/LSPosed

Modules can get/add their own activated module scope and can react differently XRemotePreferences, the modern replacement of XSharedPreferences go to libxposed/service#1 to discuss about it

github.com

This issue has been open for almost 2 years. I don't know what the goal of the LSposed developers is, but it doesn't seem to include supporting module features. Maybe there are not enough LSposed developers, or they don't have enough time for development, or they think XPrivacyLua isn't worth it, all of which would be a problem in itself. In fact, I expected the Xposed project to collapse a few years back already, and even though it still seems to be going, I am not convinced it will keep going. As a consequence, I have not been motivated to put much time into XPrivacyLua in the past years, which makes it basically a dead project anyway.

 

[M66B]

I have set the project to "unsupported", both here and on the website, so nobody will be surprised by this.

 

[M66B]

Another factor in the decision to stop supporting the project is that XDA stopped hosting the Xposed module repository without any prior notice. Apparently, XDA doesn't support Xposed modules anymore.

Note that the hook definitions repository will be taken down as well. Not right now, but there is no point in hosting this anymore (and paying for it) while the project isn't supported anymore.

Edit: the hook definition repository is in read-only state now.

 

[Amd4life]

I am considering to terminate support on January 5th 2023 because:

• Not many people use the module anymore
• The support of the project is pretty limited
• Android has become more privacy-friendly over time
• The LSposed developers do not support the module (*)
• The module is too often misused, for example to cheat in games, etc.
• I have received enough hate mail

(*) They refuse to add an API to access scopes, resulting a too many questions and also loosing users.

This means that XPrivacyLua has been supported for exactly 5 years. XPrivacy was first released on June 12, 2013, so that's in total about 10 years of XPrivacy(Lua). I think that is a pretty long time.

It always makes me sad to see these posts, but I guess it's just time. I wish you would focus on the positive messages, happily paid customers verus all the users that don't even want to read the thread for help. Take the app private, charge an annual fee and keep away from trolls. This is the best app on Android period. Without it, might as well buy a Iphone 14 pro max.

Good luck to you.

 

[westhaking]

I am considering to terminate support on January 5th 2023 because:

• Not many people use the module anymore
• The support of the project is pretty limited
• Android has become more privacy-friendly over time
• The LSposed developers do not support the module (*)
• The module is too often misused, for example to cheat in games, etc.
• I have received enough hate mail

(*) They refuse to add an API to access scopes, resulting a too many questions and also loosing users.

This means that XPrivacyLua has been supported for exactly 5 years. XPrivacy was first released on June 12, 2013, so that's in total about 10 years of XPrivacy(Lua). I think that is a pretty long time.

This is so disappointing to hear as there are exactly zero apps that offer similar functionality. Sad day for sure

 

[M66B]

I have moved over the hook definitions repository to GitHub, so it won't be lost:

https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacyLua/tree/master/repo

There is a new version of the pro companion app available, which will download from this static repository now.

Can somebody double-check if listing and downloading hook definitions still works with version 0.82 of the pro companion app?

M66B / XLua companion / Downloads — Bitbucket

bitbucket.org

 

[dope77]

I have moved over the hook definitions repository to GitHub, so it won't be lost

Works properly

 

[dope77]

Can you do something about the overlapping text in hook description?

 

[M66B]

Can you do something about the overlapping text in hook description?

The project is unsupported now, so nothing will be changed anymore, sorry.

 

[the00guy]

Damn, I knew this day would eventually come, I just hoped it wouldn't. It's one of the few that I've donated to because I honestly couldn't see myself using Android without it.

Even though Android has incorporated more permissions over the years, being able to restrict an app's ability to see what other apps are installed on the phone, SIM card/subscriber data, sensor data such as accelerometer and gyroscopic data which can be used to track user movements from a wifi or gps determined location, and of course, being able to read all of the stored SSIDs stored on a phone which a malicious app could also use to determine where a person spends their time and has been via the many glob SSID location maps, many of which have been crowd sourced such as wigle.net.

As a digital privacy advocate, I'll continue to advise people use this framework until some other developer hopefully picks this mantle back up, or such a time as these aspects of privacy become baked into mobile OSs.

I want to say thank you for all the work you've done on this project, Marcel. You've not only empowered many people like myself to better our own operational security, but have also raised awareness that many of these forms of tracking are even possible, and are also preventable. I wish you the best of luck with your other projects, which I'll continue to support as well.

 

[mopst]

@the00guy Well said.

M66B, I'm very sad to hear this news, but as a fellow developer, I get it. You gotta do what's best for you, and if it's been such a negative force, I think you should drop it. Another developer can fork it if they want, and if not, that's an answer in itself. I love your other projects as well, and I wish you peace.

 

[beeshyams]

@M66B, all good things come to an end and your reasons are valid, though I will sorely miss it and my support is with you should you decide otherwise.

Aside, please don't discontinue FairEmail, despite all the negativity

Thanks for everything and take care

 

[Baymaeela]

First of all, does XprivacyLua work on Android 10? And if it does, is it possible to change the values in the pro version, or even the free version?

Like for Read account name, it gives fake name, mostly e-mail address. What is the fake name and email address it gives, and can I change the name and email address to the one I want it to give?

 

[christantoan]

I am considering to terminate support on January 5th 2023 because:

• Not many people use the module anymore
• The support of the project is pretty limited
• Android has become more privacy-friendly over time
• The LSposed developers do not support the module (*)
• The module is too often misused, for example to cheat in games, etc.
• I have received enough hate mail

(*) They refuse to add an API to access scopes, resulting a too many questions and also loosing users.

This means that XPrivacyLua has been supported for exactly 5 years. XPrivacy was first released on June 12, 2013, so that's in total about 10 years of XPrivacy(Lua). I think that is a pretty long time.

A sad day but I can understand.
Thank you very much for supporting the project so far.

Sorry for maybe insensitive question but will the Pro companion app be open-sourced after the support is terminated? As I think both apps are important to be open-sourced just in case someone else want to continue the project.

Thank you once again.

 

[M66B]

A sad day but I can understand.
Thank you very much for supporting the project so far.

Sorry for maybe insensitive question but will the Pro companion app be open-sourced after the support is terminated? As I think both apps are important to be open-sourced just in case someone else want to continue the project.

Thank you once again.

If somebody wants to continue this project, which needs to be proven with actually contributions, that somebody can contact me to get the source code of the pro companion app. With this, I am trying to prevent misusing the pro companion app. Check the Play Store for clones of NetGuard, and you'll understand.

 

[beeshyams]

First of all, does XprivacyLua work on Android 10? And if it does, is it possible to change the values in the pro version, or even the free version?

Like for Read account name, it gives fake name, mostly e-mail address. What is the fake name and email address it gives, and can I change the name and email address to the one I want it to give?

Yes, it does, even on Android 13
You can configure fake email address globally / on per app basis (though I haven't tried it but quoting from rusty memory) but then you need the pro version