I think many women just do not know it exists or do not know about the risks of using other apps
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Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
For christ sake, is there no open source option for such a simple task?
meneervana@lemm.ee 9 months ago
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Feedback I’ve heard about Drip was that the interface was slightly wanting. Which is a shame. Sample of one, bear in mind!
ace_of_based@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
i’d like to point out that it shouldn’t be on women (or anyone) to be on constant guard against attacks on their privacy.
yes, it is the state of the world, but the attitude of your comment is victim blaming.
let’s not forget that while we on Lemmy may be aware of the danger of mass surveillance tech, we’re not the majority.
snowden told us years ago how fucked everything is, and surveillance has only grown since then. let’s not forget that it is not normal that corpo data-mining is the norm (along with included de-facto warrantless surveillance). Even though we all should be better, nobody should have to be as careful as we are.
hell, let’s be real. As long as we use a smartphone, we’re not being careful enough either.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Oh for fucks sake, I already apologized twice.
ace_of_based@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
if you don’t want to be assaulted.
you don’t have to apologize, in fact i want you to quietly think about my point until it hits home for you.
i know it seems like im baiting an answer, and nothing’s stopping you from replying, but I’m being straight with you here.
Also, i want you to know im not tryina busy your chops specifically. sure i picked your comment to reply to, but I’m also speaking broadly to the room, reminding everybody what we already know; that how we look at pervasive surveillance n how we got to live under it is absolutely broken
Ulrich@feddit.org 9 months ago
Because they don’t care. Even if it leads to potential abortion legal charges.
Zak@lemmy.world 9 months ago
So why the fuck don’t women just use that?
They probably don’t know about it. If I search “period tracker” on Google Play, Drip is in about 40th place in the results. That’s several screens down, past a bunch of search suggestions, and the parts where it’s open source, on-device, and optionally encrypted aren’t clear until I tap on it and read the description.
And you probably can’t even get drip on iPhones.
There’s some irony in a comment dealing with people making decisions that are against their interests because they’re insufficiently informed speculating incorrectly about something like this when it’s easy to check. Drip is, in fact available for iPhone.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The fact that I got 3 responses that stated it is available on F-droid made me think that. F-droid does not have anything iPhone, because you can’t side-load on iPhone.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Yeah, discoverability is a massive issue on the Play store. If it doesn’t bring Daddy Google 30% of whatever they shovel through in ad money or mtx, then you won’t see it.
Zak@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m not sure what the best answer to that is. I don’t think it’s forcing Google to improve its search results.
I want it to be the average person gaining a baseline level of computer and media literacy such that they seek out and find apps that cannot send sensitive data to third parties without the user’s clear intent, but I don’t think we’ll ever get there.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
Personal responsibility only gets you so far when the big money actively fights against it. I think the answer lies in both holding companies like Google to higher standards as well as improving access to the knowledge we need to navigate what the world has become. It doesn’t help anybody when the FBI has recommended people use an ad blocker for over a decade but nobody has ever heard them say it.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
It is improving search result, with filters. Ads, tracking, data deletion possibility, in-app purchases, license, etc…
At least some of these are already tracked.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Unfortunately I think the age of computer literacy came and went. Phones don’t even seem to want you to know that a file is a thing.
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
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[deleted]chunes@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I know people can read it if they want. I don’t see what it is to you.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I admit that was out of line, but for fucks sake, there are so many stupid people doing stupid things it’s unbearable. Voting for Trump for example. And the Russian people supporting the war on Ukraine.
I’m just so fucking tired of how ignorant people choose to be.
Botzo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 9 months ago
Thank you !
Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
tiny teams with limited resources.
If the apps work as intended, it doesn’t really matter.
riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Periodical. Local storage only, f-droid.
skvlp@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Drip looks to be available on Google Play, App Store and F-Droid.
It probably has a lot to do with informing people.
four@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
I couldn’t find a good one, so I’m open to recommendations
enshu@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Periodical f-droid.org/…/de.arnowelzel.android.periodical/ is good.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Look at the other comments, apparently drip should be the goto open source app.
four@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Thanks!
TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today 9 months ago
meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
There is! It’s called drip and is a project started by a berlin-based feminist collective iirc.
Free, open-source, local data only
wise@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Also trans inclusive which has the double benefit of not being the cliché pink. :)
amphy@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Thank you! Had no idea this existed
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Like…a spreadsheet?