My taxes already pay for the meteorology
Yeah, but it got privatized, so now you need to pay more money to a 3rd party to access the services you are already paying money to access.
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sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Bro…my weather app is selling my data? 😦
I just wanted up-to-date travel conditions in a convenient widget. My taxes already pay for the meteorology, why do they need to sell my data too??
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
4am@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
And pay a 4th party to go around removing you from data broker lists, is the expectation
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah. That’s an exercise in futility. You can’t get that data back under wraps. The only solution is to obfuscate your data with noise.
lemonySplit@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Plenty of FOSS weather apps out there that don’t sell your data. I like Breezy Weather
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
If you want the weather info sponsored by your taxes, use the browser.
If you want a convenient widget, someone needs to make it, and the developer who made that widget needs to eat too.
You can either buy an app or pay with your data.
sadfitzy@ttrpg.network 3 weeks ago
and the developer who made that widget needs to eat too.
He can eat without selling people’s data.
This isn’t about putting food on the table and you’re a dipshit if you believe otherwise.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
He can eat without selling people’s data.
Yes. By making your app paid, not free. 90% of Apple Store/Google Play store users don’t want to pay for apps with their money.
This isn’t about putting food on the table and you’re a dipshit if you believe otherwise.
You’re childishly naive if you think it’s malice 100% of the way top to bottom.
sadfitzy@ttrpg.network 3 weeks ago
Yes. By making your app paid, not free. 90% of Apple Store/Google Play store users don’t want to pay for apps with their money.
No, by doing something else with his life because developing an app is not an all-encompassing behavior.
You’re childishly naive if you think it’s malice 100% of the way top to bottom.
No, I’m just not a useful idiot going to bat for people taking money for them.
I, personally, have made significantly more complicated apps than what you’re defending and I don’t charge money for it or harvest my user’s data. I’m also not alone.
If we can do it, why can’t this scumbag? Oh yeah, because he has useful idiots like you going to bat for him.
Please, tell me more about how ignorant and innocent you are. It’s cute and predictable.
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
You can either buy an app or pay with your data.
No this implies you get a choice, which you don’t. You can get it for free and sell your data, or you can pay for it…and still also sell your data. The real money is in the data, they won’t give that up…ever.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Yeah, that’s true. Often people will take the money from users AND from selling data. But you can (usually) verify if that’s the case by checking the app’s permissions required.
The point stands, however: you either pay for the software with money, or with data - with the only exception being the unusually rare FOSS project here and there, which either lives in relative obscurity or grows to become large enough for the creators to either start requiring money, or just fold under the load…
themurphy@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Can you use an open source weather app, or is the problem deeper than that?
Maeve@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
Many phones come with a weather app you can neither uninstall nor disable.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
you can deny location position to your weather app. show the weather for cities you are interested in. Get weather by notifications for “seemlessness”
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I’m not the person who posted the widget issue, but IME many FOSS solutions (not just weather-related) are more often than not aesthetically/UX crap.
frongt@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
If my taxes can pay to develop a website, they can pay to develop a widget.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Then talk to your government, get them to make the app, not just the website. Go you!
dafta@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Thank you! This was what I was hoping someone would suggest.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Because greed.
sadfitzy@ttrpg.network 3 weeks ago
And useful idiots like /u/alaknar.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Show me one weather app that’s state-sponsored (therefore: paid by taxes) that sells data to boost income.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Nearly every weather app that exists is repackaging data from an official, tax funded source. Apps using weather underground data possibly being the only exception.
Show me one that doesn’t want location permissions and such. So now they’ve got Your data and can do as they please with it.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To be fair, a weather app does need to know my location to give relevant information.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
The weather source. Not the application source. A dude needs to sit down and write that part.