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

[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

 

[Baymaeela]

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

Good to hear.

I understand the following are all the restrictions...

• Determine activity (fake unknown activity, see here)
• Get applications (hide installed apps and widgets)
• Get calendars (hide calendars)
• Get call log (hide call log)
• Get contacts (hide contacts with the pro option to allow (non) starred contacts, hide blocked numbers)
• Get location (fake location, hide NMEA messages)
• Get messages (hide MMS, SMS, SIM, voicemail)
• Get sensors (hide all available sensors)
• Read account name (fake name, mostly e-mail address)
• Read clipboard (fake paste)
• Read identifiers (fake build serial number, Android ID, advertising ID, GSF ID)
• Read notifications (fake status bar notifications)
• Read network data (hide cell info, Wi-Fi networks, fake Wi-Fi network name)
• Read sync data (hide sync data)
• Read telephony data (fake IMEI, MEI, SIM serial number, voicemail number, etc)
• Record audio (prevent recording)
• Record video (prevent recording)
• Send messages (prevent sending MMS, SMS, data)
• Use analytics (Fabric/Crashlytics, Facebook app events, Firebase Analytics, Google Analytic, Mixpanel, Segment)
• Use camera (fake camera not available and/or hide cameras)
• Use tracking (fake user agent for WebView only, Build properties, network/SIM country/operator)

21 in total.

How many of the above 21 can I manually configure in the pro version to be able to give personalized info?

 

[beeshyams]

Good to hear.

I understand the following are all the restrictions...

• Determine activity (fake unknown activity, see here)
• Get applications (hide installed apps and widgets)
• Get calendars (hide calendars)
• Get call log (hide call log)
• Get contacts (hide contacts with the pro option to allow (non) starred contacts, hide blocked numbers)
• Get location (fake location, hide NMEA messages)
• Get messages (hide MMS, SMS, SIM, voicemail)
• Get sensors (hide all available sensors)
• Read account name (fake name, mostly e-mail address)
• Read clipboard (fake paste)
• Read identifiers (fake build serial number, Android ID, advertising ID, GSF ID)
• Read notifications (fake status bar notifications)
• Read network data (hide cell info, Wi-Fi networks, fake Wi-Fi network name)
• Read sync data (hide sync data)
• Read telephony data (fake IMEI, MEI, SIM serial number, voicemail number, etc)
• Record audio (prevent recording)
• Record video (prevent recording)
• Send messages (prevent sending MMS, SMS, data)
• Use analytics (Fabric/Crashlytics, Facebook app events, Firebase Analytics, Google Analytic, Mixpanel, Segment)
• Use camera (fake camera not available and/or hide cameras)
• Use tracking (fake user agent for WebView only, Build properties, network/SIM country/operator)

21 in total.

How many of the above 21 can I manually configure in the pro version to be able to give personalized info?

These ones with the app
If you enable hooks by @fif, you can probably achieve more

 

[dope77]

Nvm

 

[mythos_]

Bad news indeed. This is the only X(ls)posed module that I ever actually used since its early days. I hope it continues to work on future android versions.

 

[heinhuiz]

@M66B Marcel, are you still using XPrivacyLua yourself?

 

[M66B]

@M66B Marcel, are you still using XPrivacyLua yourself?

Sometimes, for development purposes.

Basically, I am using a limited number of open source apps only, so there not much need for me to use XPrivacyLua.

 

[Baymaeela]

Is it possible to run XprivacyLua on a secondary profile on Android 10 rooted through Magisk?

 

[patrickdrd]

I would suggest you release a version without checking for updates (finally..) since that check is useless now..

 

[M66B]

I would suggest you release a version without checking for updates (finally..) since that check is useless now..

If I do, there is no way back.

 

[patrickdrd]

ok let is as is then, if there's still at least little hope

 

[M66B]

ok let is as is then, if there's still at least little hope

If the LSPosed developers add an API to manage scopes, who knows.

 

[Schroeder09]

If the LSPosed developers add an API to manage scopes, who knows.

Should we all circle the wagons and chime in? What is theie contact information?

 

[heinhuiz]

Should we all circle the wagons and chime in? What is theie contact information?

Check https://github.com/LSPosed/LSPosed/issues/9

 

[Baymaeela]

How do I test whether or not XprivacyLua is working as it should?

I installed device info app and selected and marked everything for the app on Xprivacylua yet it is showing me a list of all the apps I have installed. How is that possible when XprivacyLua is supposed to hide installed apps?

I am also able to copy and paste where in Android 7 it uses to paste 'private'. In on Andoris 10 now. What gives?

 

[internationalistic]

@M66B I have depended on Xprivacy -> XprivacyLua to protect my information for the past 9+ years. You are one of two developers that I have supported! The app has been invaluable, and it doesn't compare to anything else. I couldn't have used android without it. Thank You for developing and supporting this!

In the past couple years I have sought out privacy focused OS's like CalyxOS and GrapheneOS that aim to protect user data, but these projects emphasize keeping your phone unrooted and the bootloader locked to maintain a higher level of security with verified boot. (I wish there was a way to bake in the XprivacyLua code into these OS's without the need to keep the phone rooted and dependent on LSPosed.)

I have kept my phone rooted just to use XprivacyLua, but it has come at a cost. OTA doesn't work most of the time when the phone is rooted, and if it does it breaks root and deactivates XprivacyLua which leaves my data exposed. Then I have to manually back up all my data, sideload the update, then re-root to get XprivacyLua working again. Huge time suck.

For several months, I've been searching for a solution to this problem, and I've asked questions on both CalyxOS and GrapheneOS forums, but no one seems to know. Either they are not familiar with XprivacyLua or they don't really care if their data is leaked. I just haven't gotten good response from those communities.

My best solution I've considered is to switch from CalyxOS to GrapheneOS and put non open source apps in a separate user profile, but that may still leak some data.

Do you have any suggestions to accomplish what XprivacyLua does, but on a non-rooted phone with a locked bootloader?
Do you use any of these OS's?

I thought you would be the best person to answer this question...

 

[Schroeder09]

Can anyone speak to whether or not they're using xprivacy Lua to block any aspect of carrier services, Google play services, or myVerizon? I thought these- especially the first 2- were the worst applications on a phone for tracking and spying. I haven't tried restricting anything under myVerizon, but *anything* I restrict under carrier services or Google play services causes the Android messages chat features to stop working. There may be other misbehavior too that I didn't detect because I didn't continue the experiment any longer.

I've asked this serval times in this thread, and I've received no answer. An explanation of why this stuff can't be restricted, an explanation of how to do it, or an explanation of the few restrictions that *can* be added to these applications and services would be very informative and helpful.

 

[Amd4life]

Can anyone speak to whether or not they're using xprivacy Lua to block any aspect of carrier services, Google play services, or myVerizon? I thought these- especially the first 2- were the worst applications on a phone for tracking and spying. I haven't tried restricting anything under myVerizon, but *anything* I restrict under carrier services or Google play services causes the Android messages chat features to stop working. There may be other misbehavior too that I didn't detect because I didn't continue the experiment any longer.

I've asked this serval times in this thread, and I've received no answer. An explanation of why this stuff can't be restricted, an explanation of how to do it, or an explanation of the few restrictions that *can* be added to these applications and services would be very informative and helpful.

I personally block analytics, tracking and identifiers for the apps you have listed. I also use all of the Fif hooks in the pro app. I block everything in the myverizon app and disable it, as it grabs all sorts of data. I just log into the website for account management.