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I am going to check it out.
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"privacy friendly" does not mean not relying on any service at all. Its about understanding when and where your privacy is respected. If the user is already using a Google Account for the app (you need a google account to officially download apps from the Play store), they are okay with minimal use of the Google account. Google might be evil in its ways but the google app data is far different than sharing your perso…
> Its about understanding when and where your privacy is respected. Then you certainly shouldn't be using Google (or any third party service that isn't encrypting customer data in an end-to-end way) for this, as Google is subject to law enforcement requests and right wing states have already tried to use this to access healthcare data. The whole point of this app seems to be to prevent that.
Great work and not to hijack – are there catalogs of “privacy focused” apps that don’t collect data or make remote requests? I would love a “ Kosher” badge like OU that tells me it’s a simple app (like yours) that provides utility without snooping
Using resources like F-Droid can help you find open source apps, which generally speaking, are very privacy friendly. I believe admittance into the default F-Droid repo doesn't allow trackers at all. Certain alternative front ends to the F-Droid repos, like Neo Store, can display privacy "scores" for individual apps. There's also many groups that produce privacy-friendly apps, such as SECUSO[0] and Fossify[1] [0]: ht…
I’d like to post a different sort of off-topic comment. As someone who’s married to a brilliant programmer and has a daughter almost a year old, thank you for showing a public example of simply being a woman in tech. We don’t plan on shoving our daughter in front of an editor from a young age — we have no expectations of her, and she’s free to be whoever she wants to. But one reason my wife didn’t get into programmin…
>> It’s a bit like a man not realizing he might be a great dancer, simply because most dancers are women, and so he never explores the question. No offense but that stereotype is incomprehensible. Outside of gay and lesbian clubs, [roughly} half of all dancers are men and the other half women. I suspect you are specifically talking about ballet dancers, but those are a tiny minority, and don't even exist in most of t…
There's room for "dancer" to mean "person who is actively dancing", e.g. "Jim is a great dancer, but I am not". But I've never heard someone say "I'm a dancer" to simply mean "I dance [at all]". Its technically correct to say "I'm not a dancer", but most people say "I don't/can't dance".
In the States, you'll find that the gender ratio in the average dance class (ballet, tap, jazz, hiphop, etc) is strongly skewed toward girls and women. You see similar ratios in college dance degree programs.
If you pursue professional training to dance, odds are you're a woman.
The comments on this post are interesting: 1. Some insist that the source code be made public. 2. Some insist that there be no in-app purchases. 3. Some insist that there be no analytics whatsoever. Each of the above has some legitimate reason. However, do privacy-focused apps need to play by different set of rules? If so, what special monetization models would make sense to folks on here? #AskingForAFriend
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Not really, not anymore. Many apps are now using certificate pinning to make it impossible for the user to to modify the trust store. This means that unless it is open source, it is very difficult for people to verify, even when they know very well what they are doing.
But you can verify that the app does not use the network at all, right?
Plus if there is one legitimate network call, then this strategy is out since you can't know what that request contains. OP using in-app purchases, so I'm willing to be there's at least one network call in there.
If there is no network access permission at all, then I think we agree, that's a reasonable guarantee.
Great idea, especially since many popular cycle tracking apps have a bad rep of sharing data eagerly with Facebook and other entities. One thing though: I know it's popular in these apps to show the cycle as a "clock face", but if you think about it, this is a weird representation, because of the variations in cycle lengths (of natural cycles not changed by contraceptive hormones). So, if one cycle is 26 days long an…
> many popular cycle tracking apps have a bad rep of sharing data eagerly with Facebook and other entities Many no longer have a choice as to whether to turn their data over to law enforcement who may use it to deny lifesaving medical care. (Florida briefly tried to make reporting periods mandatory for student athletes, too, but that fortunately failed)
what? details please