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Comment on Menstrual tracking app data is a ‘gold mine’ for advertisers that risks women’s safety – report

Zak@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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- Zak@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.
  
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  - Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.
    
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  - EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.
    
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  - user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.
    
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Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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