They're public domain books and the app is free.
Why the fuck does this spyware app need to upload your usage data about when and where and what you read? What is wrong with people?
I want to hate this new classic lit reading app but I do not
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Re: I want to hate this new classic lit reading app but I do not
#12They're public domain books and the app is free. Why the fuck does this spyware app need to upload your usage data about when and where and what you read? What is wrong with people?
> the app is free
I think I found your answer. Even then, paid apps/services still do that too.
In the Play Store, it just says it collects User ID, App Interactions, and Diagnostics, all for Analytical purposes. It doesn't seem like it collects location data.
I don't know if they really need User ID rather than some kind of instance indentifier, that's the only somewhat-shady thing I see.
Re: I want to hate this new classic lit reading app but I do not
#13So a chapter is like the tweet and the book is a twitter thread. Got it.
Re: I want to hate this new classic lit reading app but I do not
#14If I could get those segments via RSS...
Go on... build that!
Re: I want to hate this new classic lit reading app but I do not
#15If I could get those segments via RSS...
Considering the books are public domain you could probably build your own RSS feed in about 20 minutes with a `wget` and a for loop.
Re: I want to hate this new classic lit reading app but I do not
#16They're public domain books and the app is free. Why the fuck does this spyware app need to upload your usage data about when and where and what you read? What is wrong with people?
> the app is free I think I found your answer. Even then, paid apps/services still do that too. In the Play Store, it just says it collects User ID, App Interactions, and Diagnostics, all for Analytical purposes. It doesn't seem like it collects location data. I don't know if they really need User ID rather than some kind of instance indentifier, that's the only somewhat-shady thing I see.
Client IP is city level geolocation. When correlated with user ID and timestamp it gives city level travel history.
Collect enough points and it uniquely identifies a user.
Re: I want to hate this new classic lit reading app but I do not
#17I wanted to check out the app and found it hilarious that I had to go through a rabbit hole of links to other articles about the app to actually get to a direct link to the app. lithub --> mentalfloss --> WaPo --> AppStore Any idea why articles do this--is it for engagement or SEO?
To show that their perfect influencer personality has no unauthorized opinions or alternative.
Re: I want to hate this new classic lit reading app but I do not
#18If I could get those segments via RSS...
Considering the books are public domain you could probably build your own RSS feed in about 20 minutes with a `wget` and a for loop.
Ha! I tried this at one point. Spent way more than 20 minutes and just got a partial collection of poems done https://github.com/felipeochoa/rsspoetry/