Privacy respecting weather app for Android
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Privacy respecting weather app for Android
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Re: Privacy respecting weather app for Android
#2 Privacy Friendly Weather lets you watch the weather for cities and locations you are interested in. The app has been developed by the research group SECUSO at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. More info can be found on https://secuso.org/pfa
Re: Privacy respecting weather app for Android
#3Privacy Friendly Weather lets you watch the weather for cities and locations you are interested in. The app has been developed by the research group SECUSO at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. More info can be found on https://secuso.org/pfa
Thanks, just installed it and it has what I need in a weather app
Re: Privacy respecting weather app for Android
#4The developers [0] of this app have a whole series of different Privacy Friendly Apps, if you search for "org.secuso" on f-droid you can see them all.
Re: Privacy respecting weather app for Android
#5I've never understood why Weather apps are such a huge thing. I just type into Google "Weather" and it tells me that weather. If I was worried about privacy I'd bookmark the local government weather website.
Why the need to install an app for a simple query?
People are obsessed with them though, they're massively popular so I'm missing something.
Re: Privacy respecting weather app for Android
#6Why not a web app instead?
Web apps are nicely sandboxed, work on every device and give the user tons of interface features they are used to. Like zoom, copy&paste, bookmark urls (each city could be a url, parameters could be query string parameters) etc.
Re: Privacy respecting weather app for Android
#7The fact that it had to be mentioned at all for a weather app is concerning & telling of the state of tech
Re: Privacy respecting weather app for Android
#8Why not a web app instead? Web apps are nicely sandboxed, work on every device and give the user tons of interface features they are used to. Like zoom, copy&paste, bookmark urls (each city could be a url, parameters could be query string parameters) etc.
Because one can have a look at the widget very quickly; usability wise, it's a big difference.
Re: Privacy respecting weather app for Android
#9I've never understood why Weather apps are such a huge thing. I just type into Google "Weather" and it tells me that weather. If I was worried about privacy I'd bookmark the local government weather website. Why the need to install an app for a simple query? People are obsessed with them though, they're massively popular so I'm missing something.
Because Weather.com is not the most accurate data source in many places. For instance in Prague by my research Dark Sky is the most accurate, then there is big gap and it's followed by Wunderground/AccuWeather and possibly Weather.com (though I think Wunderground/Weather are often same if chosen specific location)
Re: Privacy respecting weather app for Android
#10Why not a web app instead? Web apps are nicely sandboxed, work on every device and give the user tons of interface features they are used to. Like zoom, copy&paste, bookmark urls (each city could be a url, parameters could be query string parameters) etc.
There are some privacy techniques the app could use that are hard for a web app. For example it could update the weather information at a fixed rate so it would not leak the usage patterns of the app.