Fauxx
Fauxx is a free, open-source privacy app for Android. Poison data collection profiles by generating decoy signals. It has 560 GitHub stars and is released under the AGPL-3.0-only license, and you can install it from F-Droid.
- Android
- Kotlin
- Privacy, ad-blocking & VPN
- Actively maintained
About Fauxx
Fauxx is an open-source privacy tool that protects you by generating diverse, believable synthetic browsing activity in the background. By feeding data brokers and ad-tech platforms plausible off-demographic decoy activity that reads as real people, Fauxx makes your genuine behavioral signal indistinguishable from convincing fakes — deception, not easily-filterable noise. This is the FULL version distributed via F-Droid and GitHub. It includes ad profile pollution, which is not available in the Play Store version due to Google's policies.
Privacy and F-Droid
F-Droid builds Fauxx from its published source code and flags anti-features such as ads, tracking or reliance on non-free services.
- Relies on a non-free network service
Screenshots
Screenshots from the app's F-Droid listing.
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What is Fauxx?
Fauxx is a free, open-source privacy app for Android. Poison data collection profiles by generating decoy signals. It has 560 GitHub stars and is released under the AGPL-3.0-only license, and you can install it from F-Droid.
Is Fauxx free and open source?
Yes. Fauxx's source code is public on GitHub under the AGPL-3.0-only license, which is OSI-approved or FSF-free. F-Droid flags these anti-features on its latest build: relies on a non-free network service.
How do I install Fauxx?
You can install Fauxx from F-Droid (package com.fauxx.full); the links are on this page. Its GitHub repository also publishes releases (latest: v0.9.0).
Is Fauxx still maintained?
The repository's most recent commit was on Oct 5, 2026. Its F-Droid listing was last updated on Oct 6, 2026. appsgit only lists apps whose repository had a commit in the last six months.