Comment by gausswho
7 days ago
I felt a prude at the time but eschewed native apps for browser versions and haven't regretted. Didn't benefit from notification distraction anyway. Apple and Google just didn't get their houses in order to be taken seriously.
If it ain't on F-Droid, I'll wait.
There is another can of worms hidden in plain sight right here, I feel like.
From the article:
This is only what's observably true of a particular app under the hood from straightforwardly jacking into it with Frida or performing any other deeper analysis.
What's to say Meta/Google/OtherAnalyticsCorp/OtherMegaCorp hasn't already, on a large scale, colluded with[bought out] app developers to simply share session data out-of-band as another tentacle?
Rather, is it even reasonable to assume they all haven't been doing this all this time? (Maybe these also fall squarely under what GDPR, DSA, and DMA were supposed to mitigate? I'm not an expert here.. just my cynicism kicking in.)
I too go through fairly great pains to try to minimize unneeded apps on my device.
Indeed. I read elsewhere that some Android manufacturers even ship with Facebook bits that don't show up in the app listing and cannot be removed.
We desperately need a viable open hardware / open source OS competitor in the phone space.
> We desperately need a viable open hardware / open source OS competitor in the phone space.
It already exists. Sent from my Librem 5.