New app: com.fauxx.full (Fauxx — Privacy Through Noise)

digital greaserequested to merge
digitalgrease/fdroiddata:add-com.fauxx.full into master

Required

  • The app complies with the inclusion criteria
  • The original app author has been notified (I am the original author: digital-grease)
  • All related fdroiddata and RFP issues referenced (none — fresh submission)
  • Builds with fdroid build — not tested locally (lacks buildserver VM); relying on this MR's CI pipeline
  • Issue tracker and author contact present in metadata

Strongly Recommended

  • Upstream app source repo contains Fastlane metadata (fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/ — title, descriptions, data_safety.md, content_rating.md,
    permissions_declaration.md, icon.png, featureGraphic.png, 5 phoneScreenshots)
  • Auto update — intentionally disabled (AutoUpdateMode: None). The project's versionCode is derived from total git-tag count (not from tag
    name), so the fdroid auto-update bot cannot infer the correct next versionCode from a new tag. I plan to swap to a tag-derivable versionCode scheme in a future release and enable AutoUpdateMode: Version then. Until then, each release will land as a small manual MR adding a new Builds block.

Notes

  • App: Fauxx — privacy tool that generates diverse synthetic browsing activity to broaden the user's behavioral profile and make narrow-interest tracker profiling less effective.
  • License: AGPL-3.0-only.
  • Anti-feature: NonFreeNet declared — the app's core function involves generating traffic against Google Search, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and opt-in
    ad-preference scraping from Google Ads Settings / Facebook Ad Preferences.
  • This is the full flavor (applicationId com.fauxx.full). A separate play flavor ships on Play Store with location-spoofing and ad-pollution modules removed to comply with Google policy; that flavor does not need F-Droid inclusion.
  • Target SDK 36, minSdk 26. All dependencies FOSS (AndroidX, Compose, Room, Hilt, OkHttp, SQLCipher, Tink, Gson, Timber, Kotlin/KotlinX). No Firebase, Play Services, or Crashlytics.
  • Build toolchain: JDK 21 LTS (matches Debian Trixie default-jdk-headless).

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