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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon TrackerControl

Usage with Shelter Sandbox

Open m37r opened this issue 5 years ago • 8 comments

In conjunction with the Shelter app, I installed a work profile. Apps from the work profile are not listed in the main view of Tracker Control, which makes it impossible to control their blocking status. In fact, when an app is duplicated, so that one version exists in each profile, even the private/regular profile version is not listed.

This was observed with the 2020.05.08-fdroid version.

m37r avatar May 20 '20 17:05 m37r

Thanks for raising this! Does this work for other blocking apps, such as Blokada?

Might it be possible to install TrackerControl twice?

kasnder avatar May 20 '20 20:05 kasnder

I haven't tried this with Blokada.

Using Shelter, I can clone Tracker Control into the work profile, where it produces the expected list of work profile apps. Also, I was misguided regarding apps that exist in both profiles: They are properly shown each in their respective profiles; I just did not spot them, because mine were system apps and I had not turned on the option to show these.

I haven't tried turning both Tracker Control instances on simultaneously, as this can only go south, right?

m37r avatar May 20 '20 21:05 m37r

I don’t know what would happen. I heard it might work, though it seems unrealistic.. But it seems it’d be difficult to have TC work with Shelter.

kasnder avatar May 21 '20 13:05 kasnder

Quick update regarding Blokada: It behaves the same way as Tracker Control - apps from the work profile are not shown. Yet, KISS launcher gets it right: Apps from work profile are shown with a briefcase badge. While this is from a totally different field, gathering a list of apps might still be quite the same. The source code is open and might provide some idea of how to do it: https://github.com/Neamar/KISS

m37r avatar May 24 '20 13:05 m37r

Any plans to integrate this functionality (controlling blocking of trackers in the work profile)? I understand you wouldn't be able to necessarily get the list of apps, but perhaps it could lump all work profile apps into one section so you could control all requests/trackers from there.

metronidazole avatar Mar 15 '21 20:03 metronidazole

Any plans to integrate this functionality (controlling blocking of trackers in the work profile)? I understand you wouldn't be able to necessarily get the list of apps, but perhaps it could lump all work profile apps into one section so you could control all requests/trackers from there.

I don’t quite understand. Does installing TrackerControl in both profiles not work for you?

kasnder avatar Mar 15 '21 21:03 kasnder

So TC doesn't filter any apps in a work profile if it is not installed in that profile?

metronidazole avatar Mar 16 '21 13:03 metronidazole

So TC doesn't filter any apps in a work profile if it is not installed in that profile?

Correct

traviszim avatar Mar 17 '21 03:03 traviszim