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Deco vs Speedtest

Privacy compared: the newest public version of each, scored by the same six rules. Deco scores 75 and Speedtest 60, so Deco is 15 points ahead.

75of 100
Decocom.tplink.tpm5

version 3.10.645 ahead by 15

60of 100
Speedtestorg.zwanoo.android.speedtest

version 7.1.1

Who is ahead on what

The longer bar is the better one on every axis; a score is the mean of its six axes. The arithmetic behind each is on the app's own card.

The six axes

Each axis is one short rule applied to both apps, with the one thing that decided its number underneath.

Security level
Deco 70 1 security problem found.
Speedtest 70 1 security problem found.
Tracking Deco +88
Deco 89 1 tracking tool found.
Speedtest 1 11 tracking tools found. It is 8 points below the bottom of the scale, so the total loses 1.3 more.
Build hygiene Speedtest +2
Deco 71 The app passes 10 of 14 checks of how well it was built.
Speedtest 73 The app passes 11 of 15 checks of how well it was built.
Packaging Speedtest +1
Deco 99 Unpacked, the base APK is 188 MB; 2.0 MB of it is unused files.
Speedtest 100 The phone can use everything in the app.
Access Speedtest +24
Deco 26 Asks for 7 of 11 kinds of permission; 1 kind of special access.
Speedtest 50 Asks for 4 of 11 kinds of permission; no special access.
Background Deco +20
Deco 94 Runs no background service and does not start by itself.
Speedtest 74 Runs 1 kind of background service and starts by itself after a restart.

TrackersDeco 1 · Speedtest 11

The advertising, analytics and attribution SDKs recognised in each app. What only one of them carries is what sets it apart.

Only in Deco
none
In both
Firebase Analytics
Only in Speedtest
Amazon AdvertisementAmazon Mobile Analytics (Amplify)ComScoreFirebase PerformanceGoogle AdMobGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Tag ManagerHuawei Mobile Services (HMS) CoreIAB Open MeasurementPrebid Mobile

Dangerous permissionsDeco 7 · Speedtest 6

The permissions Android asks the user about at run time: the camera, the microphone, the location, the contacts and the like. An app may need one for what it does; asking is not the same as using.

Only in Deco
CAMERARECORD_AUDIO
In both
ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATIONACCESS_FINE_LOCATIONREAD_EXTERNAL_STORAGEREAD_PHONE_STATEWRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
Only in Speedtest
ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION

Where this comes from

Both are the apps' public cards: what anyone may know of an app, from its newest public version - one Google Play installed, and out in the world. Each card has the score's lines and the earlier versions: Deco, Speedtest.