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This is the kind of behavior I’d expect from this administration.
Lol I remember watching that YouTube video about a north Korean phone that took screenshots every few minutes.
Freedom™
Freedom as a tag line not as a promise.
Microsoft Recall
The key difference is, instead of your data winding up in an oppressive, kleptocratic surveillance state, it goes to the oppressive, kleptocratic adtech industry (dw, your data is also still sent to the oppressive, kleptocratic surveillance state,)
Its all projection from the west 🤷♀️
To be fair the type of person that would install a white house app probably needs to be tracked anyway.
This is tracking the press who need it for their job
Is the app a requirement to get a press pass?
If that were even remotely true hopefully the press is smart enough to install on a burner "work" phone that sits in their desk drawer, or on a secondary account that is logged out by default.
So their app description is lying?
The Trump regime, lying?
This is a thing unheard of!
Must be the Democrat's fault somehow!
The funny thing is, THIS seems to be the part the media is rolling with, but if you read the full details about what it can do and how poorly it's made, tracking your location is only one thing to worry about (though it's a big one to be fair).
E.g The potential for running arbitrary malicious code if one random dude on the internet (who is unrelated to the US government) has his GitHub account compromised? Daaaaaaawg
According to the Google Play Store, there are 467 reviews (4.8 stars) but "0+" downloads. Like everything else about the White House, it doesn't add up.
And maybe most people know to keep it off their phones.
Why would anyone install government shit on their phone
From the US government, I completely agree. But a functional government helps and supports its citizens and there are plenty of ways an app on your phone can help. Admittedly that's pretty ideological, but at the very least I'd argue there is a spectrum
It should just be a website and not something that needs to live on my phone 24/7
Don't you follow and obey Orange Jesus?
Quite a few governments make it mandatory, either as an only way to complete a required process, or (like my govt) make any alternate options, like phone or Web, an absolute nightmare
It’s because there were SO many downloads, more than two BILLION I’m told, by some really fantastic people who made the app, this wonderful app, that we hit something called an INTEGER LIMIT. Can you believe that? We had so many of you GREAT Americans sign up, that it just completely broke the App Store. It’s just incredible.
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More like
We hit something called pulls up paper
int... inta... intajur? limit. what a word
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509 reviews as I write this and still 0 downloads and zero of those 509 reviews have any text; they just have ratings.
The Play Store has recently (I think about 3 years ago?) introduced delayed updates for things like download counts because they were battling faked statistics (e.g. the download counter could be manipulated by bot farms), so now downloads are accumulated and checked against users actually using the app and having it on their devices - which takes time to update so IIRC they now only update that counter every month. Hence the 0+ downloads.
So they're verifying downloads, but not reviews?
Both are verified by an automated system.
which is why fake reviews slip through but fake downloads don't really (download count is easy to verify with device feedback, fake reviews require a proper system...)
Who the actual fuck would install an app from lying scum dumpy? Holy shit.
I'm going to have to check my mother's phone.
Those who lost money on Trump coin.
Who tf is out here downloading the White House app?
I just learned it existed
Is this the same app that also has a feature that allows you to inform on others to ICE?
If you're so stupid that you install an app for Trump propaganda, you deserve to boot of the state on your neck.
...the idea was to track POTUS47, as a sole user of the app, as he notoriously got lost...
Thank god that they banned foreigner made Routers to their whole country for security reasons though.
Cheesy electron wrapper does some tracking. News at 9.
Wtf is a White House app good for? Streamlining his mental diahrea into your hands?
Official propaganda delivered right to your push notifications:
Wow. That's North Korea levels of propaganda.
One thing I don't think has got enough attention is the fact that it does a fetch from Truth Social as well, which means Trump personally gets at least some indirect data on the app's users on a server that isn't even slightly controlled or contracted by the government.
LOL. White House app. Just fuck right off with your propaganda 🤣🤣🤣🤣
i installed it on my burner and it's asking permission to check my buttholes
its gotta be hard to be a conspiracy theorist nowadays where every theory turns out to be true
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Why would anyone download this?
I’m shocked! Shocked….well, not that shocked.
Would it be bad if we were using GPS spoofers and locate thousands of people in the WH at all time?
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