Comment by dylan604
2 years ago
There's no way that I trust the developers of a company like Ticketmaster to install their app on my device.
2 years ago
There's no way that I trust the developers of a company like Ticketmaster to install their app on my device.
What is the worst that can happen? I have it installed on my iPhone and deny whatever permissions it asks for.
I have enough confidence in the sandbox that "installing an app" is basically never an issue (though I don't out of the principle that most things companies have apps for just shouldn't be apps).
> What is the worst that can happen?
I don't know the worst, but juice is not worth the squeeze in my opinion. If you recall, Ticketmaster was just recently hacked, so the worst pretty much happened in that any data they had collected on their users is potentially been leaked. So if they can't protect that data, then I'm not participating in giving them data.
Sure, but the data you give them is pretty much a condition of attending their shows, not whether you use their app, Chrome, or a PC in the library to buy the ticket. Regardless, they will get some contact and basic financial info for you unless you avoid all their concerts (which is certainly a principled and defensible choice!)
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You don't trust your OS to sandbox it? With a threat model like that, I wouldn't use any apps other than the browser
If anyone is in the situation that they need to put an untrustworthy app on their android device, the "work profile" feature can segment it off further.
Insular is an app that lets you create and manage one of these profiles on the device itself: https://gitlab.com/secure-system/Insular
Work profile is really neat, yeah. I'm using Shelter for this, it's quite nice: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/
Maybe you are using a fully open phone, but mine has an OS made by Google and almost every app tracks my location without my consent.
For the past 9 years, Android has allowed users to disable location permission per app. More recently, you can choose to share "noisy" location, which just provides an approximation of your location.
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I'm an app dev. How exactly would I track your location without your consent?
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From the AppStore:
Data Linked To You:
Purchases, Location, Search History, Usage Data, Financial Info, Contact Info, Identifiers, Sensitive Info.
Nope Nope Nope.
That explains nothing. I'm pretty sure it's talking about info that you type into form fields in the app. Same reason FB "links" your health info even though it has no access to the health info stored by your OS.
The same applies if you use their website. It'll still ask for that info with a web form.
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I mean, that horse has already bolted..
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/business/ticketmaster-hac...
Yeah that has literally nothing to do with their app. If you submitted your data on their website, it'd be leaked just the same
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