Sift

Uncover bad network traffic on your phone

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Uncover bad network traffic on your phone

7 followers

Sift shows you what every app on your phone is really doing. Uncover network traffic in real-time for every app on your phone. Create rules to block sites like ads and tracking pages.

Launch tags:iOS•Privacy•Developer Tools

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Hey @alexgrinman Can you tell us more about what you've built here? What was your inspiration for building it?

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7yr ago

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Maker

@jacqvon Sift is an app that can show you what other apps on your phone are doing. Sift can answer questions like: are apps tracking me even if I disable analytics? are apps malicious? are they connecting to strange urls? are they doing network activity in the background? Using push notifications, Sift shows you real-time network requests made by other apps. You can create rules to block urls like tracking sites, ads, etc. Use Sift to block any site you don't like for every app on your phone.

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7yr ago

@jacqvon @alexgrinman - 'Im an L-plate webcreation Student' lets say....and this app definately sounds like a added security/management feature of the nocturnal kind....where it 'hunts down that which is hidden (and activated!!!)...in the dark!!! <3 very nice potential xx

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7yr ago

Analog.Cafe

This is most excellent. I’m fine with running it via Xcode, however I think you should have that notice with a well-illustrated guide right up top, perhaps made with GitHub pages. I think this tool can be helpful to a lot more technically inclined people than just iOS developers. Good luck!!

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7yr ago

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Maker

@dmitrizzle Thanks! Yes it's definitely on the list :)

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7yr ago

I don't no

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7yr ago

Is it only for iOS ?

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7yr ago

Baserow

@dibakarbala Looks that way. At least for now. I'm sure it would be easier to get up on the Play Store though. They're less rigid about what makes it into their app store.

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7yr ago

very cool. Always thinking I have a rouge app somewhere I test so many. Very useful. Thanks!

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7yr ago

Baserow

Hey Alex, really diggin this concept. I tried installing it via XCode, but I'm getting a Swift Compiler Error: "No such module 'AwesomeCache'". Any ideas on how to fix this so I can get the app up and running? I saw there was a suggestion about adding a more detailed (step-by-step) guide, but I did wanna mention that I came across this issue just in case anyone else did and if there was a quick fix for this. Thanks!

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7yr ago

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Maker

@hiramfromthechi There's an issue for this -- it's actually a git submodule so you gotta run `git submodule update --init --recursive`. I'm working on a guide for non-ios developers!

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7yr ago

Baserow

@alexgrinman Ah, okay. Yeah that would definitely be helpful, I ran that line in Terminal just now but got the following message: `fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git` I'm definitely not an iOS developer, as much as I'd like to be. Send me some Python instead, haha. Looking forward to seeing the guide once it's complete! I was also looking at krypt, great idea––looks like you guys do great work.

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7yr ago

How does it different than a Tor browser?

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7yr ago

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