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Aren't the banners for EU page visitors. I don't think there is a US law about this, is there?
And when the app links off to an EU site? Nothing prevents an EU user from using this app. There are a variety of Trump enthusiasts, though I suspect less than there are here in the US.
A bit skeptical of how this article is written as it seems to be mostly written by AI. Out of curiosity, I downloaded the app and it doesn't request location permissions anywhere, despite the claims in the article. I've noticed Claude Code is happy to decompile APKs for you but isn't very good at doing reachability analysis or figuring out complex control flows. It will treat completely dead code as important as a co…
> it doesn't request location permissions anywhere, despite the claims in the article The article does not claim the app requests the location. It claims it can do it with a single JS call.
so can ... any other code anywhere on a mobile device? That is how API work...
Interesting. The site is nearly unusable to me unfortunately. '19 MBP w/ Chrome - scrolling stutters really bad
So at least it does something actually beneficial for the user! I wish it could go even further, the way Reader Mode in a browser would go.
A bit skeptical of how this article is written as it seems to be mostly written by AI. Out of curiosity, I downloaded the app and it doesn't request location permissions anywhere, despite the claims in the article. I've noticed Claude Code is happy to decompile APKs for you but isn't very good at doing reachability analysis or figuring out complex control flows. It will treat completely dead code as important as a co…
what version are you on? from the iphone app store: version 47.0.1 - minor bug fixes - 34 minutes ago while the parent posted 18 minutes ago they may have patched the location stuff as part of the “minor bug fixes”?
No location permission request prompting encountered. In system settings, where each app requesting location data is listed, it isn't present either.
Interesting. The site is nearly unusable to me unfortunately. '19 MBP w/ Chrome - scrolling stutters really bad
A bit skeptical of how this article is written as it seems to be mostly written by AI. Out of curiosity, I downloaded the app and it doesn't request location permissions anywhere, despite the claims in the article. I've noticed Claude Code is happy to decompile APKs for you but isn't very good at doing reachability analysis or figuring out complex control flows. It will treat completely dead code as important as a co…
> it doesn't request location permissions anywhere, despite the claims in the article The article does not claim the app requests the location. It claims it can do it with a single JS call.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> it doesn't request location permissions anywhere, despite the claims in the article The article does not claim the app requests the location. It claims it can do it with a single JS call.
> The article does not claim the app requests the location. It claims it can do it with a single JS call. so can ... any other code anywhere on a mobile device? That is how API work...
From the (limited) article, it doesn't seem they do this: https://thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app#p...
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EDIT: I'm mistaken. From the Play Store[0] it has access to
* approximate location (network-based)
* precise location (GPS and network-based)
[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.whitehouse...
This seems to disagree with:
> The location permissions aren't declared in the AndroidManifest but requested at runtime
*shrug*, someone should dig deeper. It looks like the article may not match reality.
A bit skeptical of how this article is written as it seems to be mostly written by AI. Out of curiosity, I downloaded the app and it doesn't request location permissions anywhere, despite the claims in the article. I've noticed Claude Code is happy to decompile APKs for you but isn't very good at doing reachability analysis or figuring out complex control flows. It will treat completely dead code as important as a co…
I'd verify all this stuff for myself, but Play won't install it in my phone so I can't really get the APK. Maybe because I use Graphene...? but I don't know all the ways they can restrict it, maybe it's something else (though for a pixel 9a it's rather strange if it's hardware based).
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To be specific / add what I can check, this is what my Play Store "about -> permissions" is showing:
Version 47.0.1 may request access to
Other:
run at startup
Google Play license check
view network connections
prevent phone from sleeping
show notifications
com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE
control vibration
have full network access