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Re: Everyone knows all the apps on your phone

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Post by illiac786 »

fashion-at-cost wrote: post #91
wkat4242 wrote: post #77

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On iOS it's kinda worse in some ways. If you enroll into a company MDM they can see all your apps. On Android if they use the work profile (which is the standard method these days) they can only see the apps inside there.

I would have to strongly recommend nobody enroll a personal device in a company MDM. If the company needs you to have mobile connectivity that badly, they can give you a device.

I think it’s a personal decision. I really, really do not want to carry two huge slabs around. One is already too much.

Account driven MDM enrolment pushes the Pareto front when it comes to privacy/conveniency compromises from my point of view. I will ask my IT if they have already looked at it.

Re: Everyone knows all the apps on your phone

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Post by therealmarv »

It's a known fact in the rooting community because some banking apps searching for root only apps!

If you root (I advice against doing that) and have LSPosed installed you can hide apps to be seen by every other app with Hide My Applist (HMA) [1] or HMAL (which I like more because it is more minimalistic) [2]

[1] https://github.com/Dr-TSNG/Hide-My-Applist

[2] https://github.com/pumPCin/HMAL

Re: Everyone knows all the apps on your phone

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Post by herrvogel- »

fauigerzigerk wrote: post #246
xxprogamerxy wrote: post #202

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Simple, UX. The reality is, most webapps for mobile just suck. The UX is nowhere near that of a native application. I don't want any text to be selectable. I don't want pull to refresh on every page. I don't want the left-swipe to take me to the previous page. You can probably find workarounds for all these issues. The new Silk library ( https://silkhq.co/ ) is the first case I've seen that get's very close to a nati…

>I don't want any text to be selectable. I don't want pull to refresh on every page. I don't want the left-swipe to take me to the previous page. Strange. This inability to select any text has always felt like one of the most hostile things developers could ever do. It feels like pure vandalism. Another thing that causes massive productivity degradation is not being able to keep multiple pages open so you can come ba…

Every time I try to select a single word in a WhatsApp message I surprised for a second. It’s so strange that most apps that have text as their fundamental content don’t allow you to do this.

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Post by max-privatevoid »

schnatterer wrote: post #320
pava0 wrote: post #239

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What do you mean by "break open the app sandbox"?

I found this description about the security risks of rooting very eye-opening https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/android.html It also explains the sandbox.

Madaidan's articles are well-known to be centered around "security at all costs", and often at the cost of user freedom. That's just not a realistic take when it comes to privacy. What good is absolute security if all it does is secure the device from your "tampering"? Sure, it would be nice if the device were highly secure, but I'd rather it stop spying first.

With absolute security, you can rest assured that only Google has access to all of your data, and only Google is allowed to turn off the siphoning.

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Post by evertedsphere »

weinzierl wrote: post #282
xolve wrote: post #280

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Bengaluru/Bangalore has hotspots (PIN codes are postal address codes) where there are lots of startups, mostly in ecommerce, ad-tech, online education etc. and they have incentive to upsell you a lot. I guess its referring to someone wannabe influencer buying Twitter(X) premium and posting based on half baked info on customers. Mostly sarcasm, so take with a grain of salt. I can't tell about accuracy, but explaining…

Thanks, this is helpful. Is the certain week referring to a specific festival?

presumably the report comes out every year and it's discussed for some time after that

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Post by mattl »

carlosjobim wrote: post #393
mattl wrote: post #368

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Good native Mac apps are on the decline too.

What are you missing?

I was lamenting the lack of native UI in Blender last night.

I’ve been using Nova for the last few years. Increasingly native non-Xcode development tools seem to be few and far between. I have BBEdit and Nova, but a lot of people have switched to VS Code it seems.

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Post by xmprt »

Mistletoe wrote: post #406
diggan wrote: post #398

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> Some subreddit are more dead than other but r/android got to be one of the worst. Yeah, I'm not sure what exactly is going on with reddit but if dead-internet theory would hold anywhere, it seems to be there. Besides, all the topic/subject subreddits seems moderated by people who hold a vested interest in the topic/subject, to the detriment of their community. I made a submission which went into details about the p…

Moderation is one of the huge Achilles’ heels of Reddit. I’m confused why Reddit thinks a monarchy with no term limits will work on a website when it has never worked in human history. There is no voting whatsoever where users can give feedback on how they think the moderation or the subreddit is going. You get entrenched subreddits like /r/movies and their obsession with movie posters instead of movie discussion or…

The nice thing about reddit is that no one is forcing you to follow such broach subreddits which appeal to the common denominator. In my experience, any subreddit which has more than a few millions members is going to be pretty terrible.

Find a more niche subreddit like /r/running (although location subreddits fall into a similar trap) or /r/longdistancerunning and you'd probably find them to be more interesting simply because moderators are beholden to a smaller community and their job is more about making things interesting for their niche and cultivating a community rather than just dealing with slurs, bots, and spam.

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Post by sbierwagen »

turblety wrote: post #137

I still, will never understand the need for native "Apps". To this day, I have never seen an "App" that couldn't simply have been a website/webapp. Most of them would likely be improved by being a webapp. The only benefits I can see of "Apps", are the developer get's access to private information they really don't need. Yeah, they get to be on the "App Store". But the "App Store" is a totally unnecessary concept intr…

Push notifications. Apps have them on by default, websites have them off by default. 100% of Temu's valuation is because they pester users all the time with nudges to buy stuff, which works.

Normies don't turn off notifications. Over the last few years all my relatives have picked up smart watches, (thanks to cell carriers upselling them hard during phone replacements) and in any given conversation at family events they'll be glancing at their wrist every 100 seconds.

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

Mistletoe wrote: post #406
diggan wrote: post #398

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> Some subreddit are more dead than other but r/android got to be one of the worst. Yeah, I'm not sure what exactly is going on with reddit but if dead-internet theory would hold anywhere, it seems to be there. Besides, all the topic/subject subreddits seems moderated by people who hold a vested interest in the topic/subject, to the detriment of their community. I made a submission which went into details about the p…

Moderation is one of the huge Achilles’ heels of Reddit. I’m confused why Reddit thinks a monarchy with no term limits will work on a website when it has never worked in human history. There is no voting whatsoever where users can give feedback on how they think the moderation or the subreddit is going. You get entrenched subreddits like /r/movies and their obsession with movie posters instead of movie discussion or…

You are confused.

You seem to think Reddit Inc wants anything but control over the users. They are not at all interested in discussion or being a social network. If they could achieve their real goal without all the annoying comments, they would shut those off instantly.

Reddit is a narrative pushing machine first and foremost. The money they make on advertising - IS NOT - from the one of two ads you see per page.

The Reddit stock price is not at all reflective of their tech. It’s based on ability to push thoughts to users.

Re: Everyone knows all the apps on your phone

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

aio2 wrote: post #388
hnuser123456 wrote: post #383

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The subreddit is mostly younger folks more aligned with the "fanboy" attitude, they downvoted because it was a critique of Android. Hacker news understands the concept of constructive criticism.

I wouldn't say understand, but better understands

Exactly this can be seen here if the discussion is about climate.

Even better understands might be pushing it. “Better tolerates”

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