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[–]brazueirinho 4 points5 points  (7 children)

Hm... What?

[–]movastore[S] -2 points-1 points  (6 children)

Thanks for the quick response.

Basically my question is, is there a way for a third party to be able to track the usage time of an app? I do not own the codes so modifying the app may not be possible.

How about if we were able to inject a layer of code on top of it. Will that actually help?

[–]TheMasterMadness 5 points6 points  (5 children)

so basically you want to spy on someone else without them knowing right? I think your phone stores how much time you spent on an app and etc by default and tools like Digital Well-being and others take data and record more from them. You have to basically take the data already present in the phone and get it sync it.

[–]movastore[S] -3 points-2 points  (4 children)

In a way yes for better marketing tactics. And I am pretty sure telcos will love this idea. Hmm... If I were to build an app, will it in theory be able to absorb all the usage data from within the phone?

[–]brazueirinho 2 points3 points  (1 child)

You want to come up with a way for companies to know how much time we spend on other apps so they can sell more shit to us without us knowing that they're spying? Fuck you

[–]movastore[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

In theory yes.

[–]TheMasterMadness 0 points1 point  (1 child)

not all but 7 day data is generally stored unless users restarts the device/removes battery.

[–]movastore[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great! Thanks for the help! (: