Does TrackerDetect for Android operate proactively or do you have to\can you manually scan? I've tried AirGuard available on F-Droid. I'm a bit surprised at ho

Does TrackerDetect for Android operate proactively or do you have to\can you manually scan? I've tried AirGuard available on F-Droid. I'm a bit surprised at how this situation hasn't been made into the demonstration example of how difficult it is for individuals to escape or minimize their exposure to the surveillance capitalism society. I suppose if the proximal that these things pose to individuals wasn't so gruesome, there might be more being said about it. But I'm imagining a reverse situation, where someone is taking proactive steps to avoid exposure to Google tracking, so they get an iPhone, use apple email and web services, all the other little things for minimizing web tracking, and then Google comes along and says hey, we've leveraged our control of a massive distributed network of personal Android devices to unilaterally run a tracking service in the background of every device. Then when it's exposed as being obviously dangerous, Google releases an app for iOS users to aid in mitigating the risks the system presents to all individuals. And our Google-avoiding Apple user now is confronted with the alternative of either willfully allowing Google into their digital life or not addressing the adversarial risks of the system Google created. I can't help but think if Google had done this rather than Apple (which seems rather an academic distinction to me), there's be a lot more of an uproar. ** "But Apple protects it's users' privacy and Google's business model is to monetize it" - maybe Apple is better in this regard, or maybe they're just a black box with a plausible alternative revenue model that doesn't need to monetize the data it collects in the same obvious way - yet. And I am loath to trust a company that in the face of backlash after the risks of a novel tracking system that they, as one of likely only two companies with the capacity to do so, created first, releases a statement suggesting we join in congratulating them for being the first to take steps to mitigate the risks (of the lone system that produces those risks that they and they alone have deployed). It's as of they are either completely out of it or they cynically know they can leverage an if we word it they will come Field of Dreams for fan-boys. "But I won't be late for The Man because I lost my keys in the sofa now." The whole thing is depressingly pathetic. If only Orwell and friends had explained how f**ing convenient the surveillance state would be!