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Period tracking app has been yapping about your flow to Meta
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I mean, you kinda do because F-Droid maintainers check for 'anti-features' like that before approving each app to be added to the repository. That's the big benefit of it over something like Obtainium.
I haven't checked myself, but I think it's very likely that there's at least one period-tracking app on F-Droid that doesn't require network permission at all.
If the data goes to their cloud, fdroid can’t check for anything.
If the app makes network connections…. You need to assume anything it can access on your phone is shared with a malicious third party.
Why do you keep talking about cloud shit? What part of "[they probably don't] require network permission at all" did you not understand?
In fact, if some app's data did "[go] to their cloud," F-Droid would slap a big fat anti-feature warning label on it saying "this app promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service" and not put an install button in the list in the search results, forcing you to go through an extra step if you still wanted to install it!
I don't know why you're trying to fearmonger so hard when F-Droid really does everything it can to protect you from shit like this, short of actively restricting you itself.
Oh boy… You don’t know what “cloud” means.
If an app stores info on their servers, they have access to it. This isn’t something only big tech does. Any app may store user account information, general app data, etc. if you can use it on your desktop and you can use it on your phone… guess where that data is…. ☁️ 🧠
As I said above, what we need are more apps allowing the use of private data storage. Your own “cloud” (server). And then an OS level block of all network connections besides that single source.
What part of "no network" you do not understand? There's no cloud in Drip, the one mentioned. Not from a company, not your own. It doesn't even have the network connectivity.
I mean in general. Not focusing on the specific app.
You started three chain of replies on a comment in favor of a specific app, Drip.
Then double down being condescending on your lack of understanding.
So understand people aren't engaging positively with you.
It’s just you and another account. I don’t think that’s a large sample. Get that dopamine. Git it!
Right. And F-Droid actively encourages exactly that by calling it an "anti-feature" whenever an app connects to a network service but fails to work with the service of your choosing.
I'm literally telling you about the thing that addresses your exact concern, and yet you're nonsensically bitching that I'm somehow the one who doesn't know what I'm talking about? What the fuck is wrong with you?
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