Is this a surprise to anyone?
I decompiled the White House's new app
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Re: I decompiled the White House's new app
#52Interesting. The site is nearly unusable to me unfortunately. '19 MBP w/ Chrome - scrolling stutters really bad
I agree, the website of the original article is kinda terrible
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That is some impressive willful ignorance. “If it was anybody else threatening to beat this guy up for what he was saying, you’d probably praise them. But a cop does it one time and …”
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#54"An official United States government app is injecting CSS and JavaScript into third-party websites to strip away their cookie consent dialogs, GDPR banners, login gates, and paywalls." In their defense, this is the first thing the Trump admin has done that's unambiguously positive for ordinary people.
Indeed.
I'd love it somehow taken out of it and made available for the general public. Custom uBlock / Adblock filers will be probably the easiest.
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#55Earlier 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.
It can request with a JS call. It can't passively collect it without you approving first. The article is written like calling that JS function will turn on location tracking without consent.
He explicitly says he can't determine it, but that the location tracking as configured will turn on once the user grants consent. All true statements.
How would you have written it differently
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#56Are those references to 45 and 47 "Easter Eggs" to Trump's presidency number(s)? As in, forty-five-press (45th president) and Version 47.x.x (47th president), as well as the text message hotline (45470).
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Are you upset people are being critical of a shabbily run government program?
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#58> The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes (9.5m when in background), and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages (“lonelycpp” is acct, loads iframe viewer page). Doesn’t seem too crazy for a generic react native app but of course coming from the official US government, it’s pretty wide open to supply chain attacks. Oh and no one should be cont…
Aren't the banners for EU page visitors. I don't think there is a US law about this, is there?
Some states have them. California has a similar one "Don't Sell My Personal Information."
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