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I checked out tor browser in exodus and got to know it have 3 trackers.
Mozilla tracking,Sentry and Google Analytics.
Why is it the case?
Is Tor Private to use after this?

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[–] moon@lemmy.cafe 40 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It doesn't, those are stubs. Exodus will decompile and look for functions and imported APIs, not if the functions are actually filled out. This is a good approach a lot of the time, but has false positives like this occasionally.

[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@feddit.ch 4 points 9 months ago

Is there a way to tell if an app only has these stubs or if they are fully functional trackers?

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Quite true. Actually trying to remove all traces of them may break a number of things, hence the stubs are left. It is just easier this way when lacking a full on, well-payed team of software coders and engineers.

Essentially, false positives.