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Also, fuck xfinity and their BS. Can’t even change wifi password without downloading an app.
Also, fuck xfinity and their BS. Can’t even change wifi password without downloading an app.
A browser limits what kind of tracking they can do, while an app gives them full control over telemetry and usage data collection. Go look at the permissions for some of those bespoke apps, and you’ll quickly realize that they’re basically using it to profile the fuck out of you.
I never understood this point. In a browser you can track every cursor movement, every keystroke, every scroll action, every loss of focus, and send it to your servers in real time, all without the user noticing. How is tracking easier in an app?
The app knows what’s going on elsewhere on the device, too.
The app can do all that, plus - if permitted - track the phone’s real world physical location, harvest the phone owner’s full contact list, turn on their microphone and camera, and browse their camera photograph history.
I think if more people understood that, we would see a lot less app usage.
All those permissions have good and worthwhile uses, but they’re not only being used in those good and worthwhile ways.
Edit: My shower thought: this must be some kind of “Golden Age” for hit men. I bet they spend their workday on all the murder with barely any on the detective work. I bet their profit-to-cost is sky high in the age of the smart phone.