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From: Enrico Papaloma <enrico@papaloma.net>
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On 6/14/2024 2:00 PM, Dudley Brooks wrote:
>> https://support.google.com/android/thread/18328571/why-is-there-a-firebase-app-indexing-option-under-accounts-with-several-google-apps-listed
>> https://xdaforums.com/t/privacy-anyone-know-how-to-clear-google-map-search-results-in-the-android-firebase.4369547/
>> https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/gdg-oslo-hidden-android-features/75463195#23
> 
> The last one sounds interesting.  I'll check it out ... later ... and 
> see if it applies to the *current* Android version!  ;^)

Page 23 of the powerpoint slide is about Firebase App Indexing.
If you can figure out what it does, please let me and everyone else know.

As far as I can "see" with my own eyes, the Firebase App Index on my phone
is uploaded periodically (roughly about once a month it seems) to
"somewhere" but I don't know where it's uploaded to.

It just says the last time that it was uploaded, which is usually within a
month - but it doesn't say what initiated the upload nor to where.

If that wasn't disconcerting enough, it has all the places I've ever
searched for in that month and worse, it has all my contacts that I've
contacted, and worse it has every app I've used and for how long I've used
them, etc.

So this Firebase App Indexing contains a lot of private data that I did not
ask to be saved and uploaded - and yet - it's saved and uploaded somewhere.

Of course I've searched for what the purpose is of the Firebase App
Indexing, and all I can glean from the results is that it's something
developers are supposed to be interested in for purposes somehow related to
Google Searches.

I wish someone would explain to me what Firebase App Indexing is doing.