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Ask HN: What is Google play on android sending? Telemetry?

4 points by finchisko ↗ HN
Just found this line in adb logcat. Does anybody know what is it?

PlayCommon: [9251] http://com.google.android.play.a.al .e(731): Preparing logs for uploading for xyz@g.com

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finchisko
It doesn't use cert pinning so using mitmproxy to intercept traffic is possible. So far I've found:

It sends couple of POST to https://play.googleapis.com/log.

Seems like it is sending some kind of google maps counters (GMM_COUNTERS, GMM_PRIMES).