3rd party/External Calls from the app

Darb

Good evening!

First off I want to say that I am a long time user of MasterPassword and very excited to try out the new version. Since the whole reason to utilize Spectre is for security would you be able to go into what all calls the spectra app makes to off devices services? After I noticed the option to run the app in "offline mode" it made me wonder what all was happening under the hood.

lhunath

Hi Darb,

I'd be happy to. In summary, there are three things Spectre uses your Internet connection for when you use the app:

Crash reporting (using the privacy-first service Sentry), off by default, on if the user enables Diagnostics.
Anonymous statistical analytics (using a self-hosted privacy-first Countly instance), off by default, on if the user enables Diagnostics.
Site previews (end-to-end, loads a picture for your sites, akin to a social banner on a link), on by default, no outgoing data.

We also have an extensive privacy policy describing in detail how the Spectre app was built to carefully detach your identity from every instance of outgoing network connectivity, including diagnostics data. User privacy has been top of mind with everything I built into Spectre, from the deliberate choice of partner services, their configuration, the opt-in model, the scrubbing of data, the cryptographic detachment of user identity from diagnostic data, and so on.