> such as AccuWeather, GasBuddy, Grindr, and MyFitnessPal that collect your MAID and location and sell that to brokers.
Welp, that's the final straw I needed to nuke that fucking GasBuddy app from my phone. Goddamn I hate them so much
Welp, that's the final straw I needed to nuke that fucking GasBuddy app from my phone. Goddamn I hate them so much
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16776028#16776762
I've pretty much deleted all apps. I'm working on dumping my phone all together but shit like mandated 2FA is screwing that up.
All you’d need is a camera to read QR codes, a display, a few kB of storage and some pretty basic processing.
But then I guess that storage would need to be encrypted with some sort of authentication. Hmm.
We could call it something like Web Authentication. I could even imagine small, keychain-sized USB authenticators that you have to touch a capacitive button on to approve an authentication :)
If you go to Settings -> Privacy, the top two options in iOS 18 are:
* Auto-deny Advertising ID access
* Which apps have location access ("X always, Y while using the app" is summarized right at the top)
Is that possible with IOS to avoid Apple? I think not.
Edit: Clarified my question as to what's possible with IOS.
I've heard that from a number of folks on various forums, although I have not experienced that myself.
No one has forced me to use such an app. Probably because I'd rather have my tonsils extracted through my ears than do anything financially related on my device.
Perhaps I'm just curmudgeonly and set in my ways, or perhaps my 25+ years of professional infosec experience tells me that these devices (brand/version/OS is irrelevant) are hopelessly insecure and shouldn't be used for anything important.
I'm guessing probably a bit of both.
That being said with the exception of Qubes desktop devices are dramatically less secure than Graphene, so unless you're foregoing digital payments altogether I don't see how you could avoid some degree of risk.
Why would I want to use anything from those scumbags?
>That being said with the exception of Qubes desktop devices are dramatically less secure than Graphene, so unless you're foregoing digital payments altogether I don't see how you could avoid some degree of risk.
You're talking out of your ass and it smells that way too. Yuck!
There are popular third-party libraries, used by apps, offering whatever functionality.
Those third-party libraries do deals with whoever, to include into the library whatever code it is the whoever wants to get out onto a ton of phones.
I worked for a company in Germany, who wanted to get some Bluetooth base station detection functionality out into phones, so they could track people.
Company put Bluetooth base stations into a bunch of locations, and then paid a major third-party library to include their code.
Bingo. One week later, millions of phones being tracked.
When you install an app, you are in fact installing God knows what from shady friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend, who's got money.
Do not install commercial apps. Only install open source apps. Anything else, you're going to be abused, whether you know it or not.
This advice is about as practical as "go live in a cave". At some point, you have to decide whether avoiding the privacy harm limits your ability to function, and sadly, that is increasingly the case.
Crazy I work with Zoomers that install seemingly every dumb retail app so they can get a dollar off a Big Mac or whatever.
There's no reason for a "McDonalds App" to be on anyone's phone. I can wait a few minutes in line, thanks.
But, to answer your question, yes: I just checked and the spread seems to be $5.19 to $4.19 here. But to circle back to your original premise it's quite possible that even $15-ish is not worth the glucose/time spent interacting with this objectively terrible app and then driving to some likely inconvenient station