JOjohn-titor·Dec 22, 2022Submission
End of Support for XPrivacyLua
2 points · Open discussionM66B
XPrivacyLua
Java2018–2025
M66B / XPrivacyLua · Archived
XPrivacyLua
Really simple to use privacy manager for Android 6.0 Marshmallow and later
17Distinct people
21Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
558GitHub stars
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What it is
Really simple to use privacy manager for Android 6.0 Marshmallow and later
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Where it is used
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Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.
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Observed mentions: 2018-03-06 02:31:55 UTC to 2025-03-30 00:46:54 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesOn Android you should be able to create new user accounts on the phone which are completely separated and can be quickly switched between. I used to create one with just WhatsApp installed for instance.
Alternatively if you are rooted Xprivacy[0] does what you asked, allowing you to grant apps permissions but then feeding them fake data as configured.
No idea about iOS though.
EDIT: There seems to be an app called Insular[1] which also works like Xprivacy, but doesn't require root at all and comes with a couple of extra features like the ability to have multiple instances of an app installed. Haven't tried this one though and I have no idea if it even runs on newer versions of Android.
[0] https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacyLua
[1] https://secure-system.gitlab.io/Insular/
In “When we all have pocket telephones”XPrivacyLua has the ability to feed fake data to apps.
https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacyLua
Requires rooted Android + Xposed though.
In Mexican Loan Apps, Extortion, and the Google Play StoreI heard that there is indeed an option to do that, with help of some apps. You keep your real contacts list in these apps. Presumably this also means that you have special dialer and sms apps integrated with this contact list app, since otherwise you can't just tap a contact to dial or message, and would have to copy-paste phone numbers around.
Dunno what to do about messengers and such, which integrate with the contact system to show their correspondents in e.g. the ‘share’ menu. Not sure if these contacts are available to other apps—but if they are, it seems impossible to hide them.
Also there's e.g. a plugin for the (non open-source) Xposed ‘framework’, to feed fake data to apps that want to access the location and other such info. Seems to be able to fake the contacts, too, but afaiu requires a rooted phone: https://github.com/M66B/XP
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It's still possible to use XPrivacyLua (https://github.com/M66B/XPrivacyLua) with passing SafetyNet. It's a cat-and-mouse game, but the community is still ahead.
You can achieve this with latest Magisk (v24+, https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk), enabled Zygisk and following modules:
- LSposed Zygisk (https://github.com/LSPosed/LSPosed, fork of Xposed)
- Universal SafetyNet Fix (https://github.com/kdrag0n/safetynet-fix)
- Shamiko [optional, more hiding but needs configuration] (https://github.com/LSPosed/LSPosed.github.io)
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