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I decompiled the White House's new app
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
"If the user chooses to opt-in and grants location-tracking permission, the app is then, and only then, able to track the user's location?"
But that's not true; it could easily fallback to other forms of geolocation like using the current IP.
Good lord. So could literally any app on the planet
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"yappy yappy"? What?
Re: I decompiled the White House's new app
#104Looks like what you might expect in a standard marketing app from a consultancy. They probably hired someone to develop it, that shop used their standard app architecure which includes location tracking code and the other stuff.
And r8 which does tree shaking to remove dead code is not smart enough to understand react native so it won't strip it out without extra work from the developer. Cross referencing these different things in the article to other apps that exist was my first thought as these seem pretty generic and probably reused from somewhere else.
The Polish covid quarantine app was famously adapted from some app for store inspectors or something, as it already implemented most of the required functionalities, like asking for photos via push at random times, sending them along with a location etc.
They likely did a search-and-replace on the brand name, so you had strings like 'your invoices from Home Quarantine inc' in the code.
Not a bad thing per se, getting the app out the door asap was definitely a priority in that project for understandable reasons, but funny nonetheless.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It’s hard to imagine a smug article like this dissecting a product of some other administration Did the other administration put a "fake news" and "report to ICE" and grifting link to their own social network in their apps? I feel like you are perhaps papering over a whole lot of general shittiness of this app that didn't exist in less amateur previous administrations that at least tried to follow the norms.
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Did they break down your door or shoot your SO in the head for not wearing a mask?
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I wonder if that person might find it amusing to take down the file the app uses
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#107"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.
uBlock's built in filters handle it just fine, since it's very basic blocking based on html classes of the elements
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> It’s hard to imagine a smug article like this dissecting a product of some other administration.
Yes, that's because this administration is uniquely awful. Basically every single thing this administration does is bad. Often so bad that it's legitimately impressive just how incompetent our leaders our.
Obviously previous administrations were not perfect, but to sit here and pretend that they are on the same level is delusion.
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You think this administration is trustworthy?