My calc app also has its privacy policy there. It says
OpenCalc does not collect any user data.
What fresh hell is this?
Submitted 3 months ago by daikiki@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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vaionko@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
sparkle@lemm.ee 3 months ago
How dare they
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
[deleted]Francisco@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Have you forgotten. ‘/s’ ?
WhyFlip@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If done right, the sarcasm tag isn’t needed.
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
GrapheneOS + network permission toggle
Or just use a FOSS app from F-DroidRogueBanana@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Open calculator is pretty cool and very pretty
territorial@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Yep I already use that app, specifically chose it because of the Material 3 design
sol6_vi@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Thanks for mentioning and linking Graphene - I was stoked to see the Pixel support. Installing today.
clark@midwest.social 3 months ago
Let me know how it goes! Also recently installed GOS, us newcomers gotta stick together.
randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 months ago
Happy to see someone jump on board the GrapheneOS train! Be warned though, the installation will wipe your device, so make sure to do backups.
theneverfox@pawb.social 3 months ago
In fairness, I’ve had to write a privacy policy due to store restrictions. It boiled down to “everything stays on your phone. I don’t collect your data, I don’t want your data, I don’t even have a backend server that could be collecting your data. If you find my app sending telemetry of any kind, please tell me immediately because that should not be happening”
That being said, this doesn’t exactly inspire confidence
KeenFlame@feddit.nu 3 months ago
And nothing at all inspires more people confidence so that’s why they need the policies. It’s not possible to satisfy this
intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 months ago
A car is parked at the far end of the street. Hidden by the shadow of an old elm, and a reflection of the blue sky on the windshield, an agent patiently writes out his notes:
8:15 am A leaves house on foot 8:17 am B arrives driving and parks car (license plate: GYX 455), walks away 8:40 am B arrives, enters house 9:20 am A arrives on foot, leaves in car
This is called a stakeout. A form of surveillance.
IT folks will also recognize this as analytics data. You can almost see the json: timestamp, event name, metadata
As analytics data gets tagged to individuals, it becomes targeted surveillance.
Regular analytics is like a surveillance camera: you just see each person in a snapshot, all in the same place. You’re seeing the story of the place. Like a 7-Eleven, tracking when its customers come to decide when to make the coffee.
But modern analytics is more and more all the events about a person or cluster of people. That’s a lot more like the FBI following Hemingway, keeping a log of all his activities to build a profile.
suction@lemmy.world 3 months ago
IT folks will also recognize this as analytics data.
(・_・;)
helloyanis@jlai.lu 3 months ago
I’ve published a simillar app to the play store (a calculator for keeping track of your stats in a game) and it got denied because it had no privacy policy, and I had to add one. Maybe that’s why they need to include it?
WarlordSdocy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I would believe that but I’m pretty sure this is the default Google calculator. It looks like the same one that’s on my Pixel. And when I click on the privacy policy thing it takes me to Google’s privacy policy so who knows what the calculator is doing.
helloyanis@jlai.lu 3 months ago
Then perhaps it’s because Google should follow their own rules? I mean, I still think it’s dumb to have a privacy policy on a calculator, but if that’s what they ask from other devs maybe they do this to look good?
Otherwise, getting tracked by a calculator is really a low 😅
Mwa@thelemmy.club 3 months ago
material you colors are pretty ugly
Is this even material you it looks like it
randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 months ago
material you colors are pretty ugly
You can actually change this in your settings. You will absolutely be able to find something of your taste. Usually your phone generates a few combinations for you to choose from based on your wallpaper. I do agree that this particular combination in this screenshot is ugly however.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 3 months ago
oh alr
Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Subjective
LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Stronk?
bitwolf@lemmy.one 3 months ago
Gotta love that internet access is implicitly provided in Android now /s
teft@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They want to monetize any proofs you find.
Now get to work crunching numbers.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 months ago
They want ur equations on the off chance you accidentally solve one of the Millenia Prize problems.
suction@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It could happen if you hit just the right sequence of buttons on a pocket calculator!!
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
The right sequence of buttons on any calculator is 5318008. That was determined shortly after the invention of the pocket calculator.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You can replace your calculator, as well as your clock, contacts, record, translate, and more pretty easily. It’s well designed, and it’s FOSS!
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You can also use this calculator app, as well as camera, recorder, gallery, dialer, text messages, and more. Also well designed and also FOSS
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Diurnambule@jlai.lu 3 months ago
Mine does… calculator asking for network
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Congratulations? If you use anything beyond stock apps it means you downloaded it, and accepted the privacy policy for it. Even with automatic updates, you logged in and accepted the policy as well. You don’t want it? Erase the app. Freeze it, don’t use it, whatever.
What’s worse is that you don’t even show the permission menu, you just show a notification.
Do what you want, but take at least responsibility for what you accept
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 3 months ago
In normal Android, I don’t think internet access counts as a permission, nor does basic data collection.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Squizzy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I pay 5,99 a year for glasswire and cut all apps internet access unless necessary, browsers and such.
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I’d pay 5.99 for Glasswire
Then if they want me to pay every year for the same product I already bought they can shove their glass wire up their sphincter
Squizzy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It is a service to be fair, saves me setting up something similar myself.
I am generally against subscriptions also but it is so small that what I would pay in a one off is unlikely to ever be paid by me.
over_clox@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If you type in 867-5309, Jenny will call you back!
spongeborgcubepants@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s because of the log function
prex@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Very punny.
Aceticon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s was all clearly calculated.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yes, and it’s brown because of the tan function.
spongeborgcubepants@lemmy.world 3 months ago