I love how the Streisand Effect works. They just made this app the hottest thing out there.
Is the app foss?
Shouldn’t be an app. It should be a site accessible using vpn and private browsing with an appropriate browser. Nobody should have to worry about the Stasi finding the app on their phone regardless of the situation.
Websites don't support push notifications in a way that normies understand. They're also generally unreliable. And these are time-sensitive matters.
While this is true, most people are not so tech savvy, maybe giving an option to mask app Icon to user choice can help it hide better.
going to a website (not tech savvy enough for this) vs going to the settings on an app and select a new icon (yay anyone can do it)
While I agree, in this particular case I think it's a good idea.
Can’t it be both?
I would imagine this is very similar to marking a cop on Waze and completely legal which is why they are throwing a hissy fit.
Sweet. I appreciate that their reaction has Streisand-effected this app into my awareness.
"[the app] basically paints a target on federal law enforcement officers’ backs"
When it comes to painting targets on backs, better them then innocent civilians.
Lol.
R's have not only painted targets, they've made ads, and joked about killing civilians and anyone other than MAGAts
Greene in an ad for her 2020 campaign cocked an assault rifle as she warned “antifa terrorists” to stay out of her district
Masters, a venture capitalist and favorite of Trump-loving billionaire Peter Thiel, has featured guns prominently throughout his primary campaign. He responded to President Biden’s promise on Monday to crack down on “ghost guns,” which are homemade and untraceable, by tweeting a picture of a “ghost gun” he recently built himself. “Very legal & very cool,” he wrote.
https://www.indy100.com/politics/eric-greitens-campaign-ad-gun
"There's no bagging limit, no tagging limit, and it doesn't expire until we save our country."
"I look forward to the day that Democrats are so rare, we have to hunt them with dogs,"
Edit: and for the record, Blake Masters is a piece of shit buddy of both elon and Vance and they are all tied together in their hate for democracy and love of Curtis Yarvin and the plot to destroy western civilization. (Source: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right-where-peter-thiel-is-placing-his-biggest-bets)
They could try not being brown shirts. Problem solved.
I love the quote about how it is putting federal agents in danger...and I sort of think that they are doing that themselves.
Good, those agents are playing a dangerous game and you should know if you play with fire your going get burned. Its a matter of time before they try to kidnap the wrong person, and that person decides its better to die in America then it is to go to a camp then deported.
dont they have site as well, just incase they decide to shut the apps.
Anyone have a link to the app/website? I’d like to follow some among honing my horn and warning folks.
Is this only on Apple? Kind of lame.
This is IOS only owing to Android play store collecting a device identifier; the creator wanted complete anonymity
Quote from some other place people were discussing it. Unfortunately no source on it.
fdroid?
There are other stores besides the playstore..
It's not about the store, it's about the notification.
As mentioned in the Time article:
the app is not available on Android because it "requires a device ID in order to send push notifications, which requires a user account and a password."
Its totally possible to send notification without having user account, see firebase.
You don't need a user account or password to receive a push notification.
You just need to have the app installed. The app can be configured by the developer to receive push notifications.
Ntfy.sh
There are ways around that
Ice and snowflakes always seem to go so well with one another.
This app sounds exceedingly useful to me.
It sounds like a honeypot to me. But I would be happy to be proven wrong.
Edit: and it’s gone?
“He’s giving a message to criminals where our federal officers are, and he cannot do that, and we are looking at it, we are looking at him, and he better watch out,” Bondi said. “Because that is not protected speech, that is threatening the lives of our law enforcement officers throughout this country, and shame on CNN!”
Why can't he do that, Pammy?
Gotta say Aaron is a bold motherfucker.
if they're worried about being tracked maybe they could do the easiest thing in the world which is not being complete shitheads?
I'm happy they're scared.
Seems like the kind of thing a defederated system would be good for...
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