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YSK: Flo period tracking app is proven spyware! Here is what you should use instead. (thelemmy.club)
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YSK: Flo period tracking app is proven spyware! Here is what you should use instead.
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[–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

It’s better to stop using apps to track your period at all.

Use a paper planner, bullet journal, or graph paper. Don’t let any of these companies suck up your personal data.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    This might work OK for simple period tracking, but for more advanced fertility tracking, it's not really possible to do pen-and-paper without being a huge pain.

    For example, the open-source, local-only app Drip optionally uses a "sympto-thermal method" to estimate when a user is fertile; the app takes not just the days they are on their period into account, but also their body temperature, cervical mucus values or cervix values, and throws those inputs into an open-source algorithm for much more accurate results.

    Doing all that on pen and paper might be possible, but it would also be a bit of a nightmare.

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