Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks agoIf 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.
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.
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…
Can you use an open source weather app, or is the problem deeper than that?
Many phones come with a weather app you can neither uninstall nor disable.
you can deny location position to your weather app. show the weather for cities you are interested in. Get weather by notifications for “seemlessness”
Yeah, I was just curious if the app could harvest it anyway via the SDK or something.
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.
If my taxes can pay to develop a website, they can pay to develop a widget.
Then talk to your government, get them to make the app, not just the website. Go you!
Thank you! This was what I was hoping someone would suggest.
sadfitzy@ttrpg.network 3 weeks ago
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
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.
You’re childishly naive if you think it’s malice 100% of the way top to bottom.
sadfitzy@ttrpg.network 3 weeks ago
No, by doing something else with his life because developing an app is not an all-encompassing behavior.
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.
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Buddy, are you suggesting that software developers should “do something else to earn money”?
Are you high right now?
Go ahead. Quote the bit where anyone in this thread is batting for anybody.
I’m becoming fairly certain that you are high. What exactly am I defending…?
We can’t have a discussion if you don’t understand some simple facts of life. Such as: “people need to eat”, or “eating costs money”, or “not everybody has the privilege of being a software developer as a side-gig”, or “not everybody wants or can be a farmer”.
Get sober, then read what you wrote again.