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[-] Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz 84 points 1 week ago

You would think all the data they steal from you when you install the app would be payment enough

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 36 points 1 week ago

My theory is that the new method for data vacuuming is charging a benignly small fee to make it appear that you're paying for a service and not getting raided, as opposed to using a free service where you assume they're harvesting you like an apple tree.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Yeah when the fuck are sandboxing being implemented correctly in telephones smh

[-] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Its available for some phones with extra work.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
  1. Maybe earlier. Apple and Android phones have been heavily sandboxed from the start.
[-] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 week ago

Exactly!

Interestingly, I was looking for this right now and realized that they don't have an app for Android and I couldn't get the information that the App Store offers about the app's permissions (probably invasive), not to mention that it probably has to connect to several dubious servers to upload data it collects from the user. I say it because I know how this business model works.

[-] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

I was going to look it up and share but I think they went under. No app on iOS either and the URL takes you to a wix placeholder page

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

they went under

Serves the fuckers right. If only the same would happen to Nestlé Water..

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com -1 points 1 week ago

Spoken like someone who knows nothing about how apps work.

[-] urandom@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

How do they steal the data then?

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