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“We are only collecting the list of applications you have installed.”
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#42Raise your hand if you feel like this is an unwarranted breach of privacy, but you have a gmail account and heavily depend on Google services.
Raises own hand.
I was so trusting and willing to give away my emails to Google when I was a kid (despite being fully aware of their intentions), but now, even though privacy infringements from all these other companies disturb me, I'm still a hypocritical sheep in Google's herd.
Time to make some pretty heavy changes...
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#43Apple should ban the app for this, right? http://danielamitay.com/blog/2015/5/29/shutting-down-a-500mm...
Unlikely considering they work closely with Apple on integration with Twitter. Double standard sure but I doubt Apple cares.
Apple's integration is independent of the Twitter app, though.
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#44Stick this in 140 characters: "Twitter has and always will suck, as a service and as a corporation".
The medium is ridiculous, I really see it as the dumbing down of our society.
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#45Why do iOS and Android give apps this data in the first place? Mobile apps will invariably abuse any trust granted to them, so platforms should just stop granting any more trust than necessary.
They don't explicitly provide it. Twitter uses a form of IPC built into iOS (canOpenUrl) to find out by brute force whether or not well known apps are installed.
In other words if you just submitted mynewobscureapp to the AppStore, Twitter would not be able to detect it until they added your app to their targeted list.
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#46We've designed app graph to exclude apps that appear to be especially sensitive, such as ones dealing with your health, sexual orientation, or religious beliefs. I was alarmed until I read this. It is really nice of them to choose to keep our sensitive private information private. Thanks Twitter! ( Of course I completely trust Twitter to make the right decision on which apps are considered sensitive. )
The sarcasm is strong in this one. Hopefully.
Re: “We are only collecting the list of applications you have installed.”
#47Why do iOS and Android give apps this data in the first place? Mobile apps will invariably abuse any trust granted to them, so platforms should just stop granting any more trust than necessary.
They don't explicitly give it. You can define your own URL schemes, e.g. hackernews://, and the OS will tell you if a handler for that URL scheme is installed.
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#48I wonder if the Twitter app will also be removed from the Apple Store due to using "public APIs in a manner nor prescribed by Apple." Hint: it won't.
Apple may not remove it, they'll just refuse updates.
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#49Raise your hand if you feel like this is an unwarranted breach of privacy, but you have a gmail account and heavily depend on Google services. Raises own hand. I was so trusting and willing to give away my emails to Google when I was a kid (despite being fully aware of their intentions), but now, even though privacy infringements from all these other companies disturb me, I'm still a hypocritical sheep in Google's he…
It takes planning and plenty of work, but I have almost completed migration to my own domain and away from gmail. I wish I had done it sooner, everyone needs to make their own place on the net. No need to be a serf.