I thought entering the information is like 90% of the tracking, everything else is mostly calculation/averaging and none of it needs to live on a server. The Euki app seems like my idea of what it would always be.
Paying for apps doesn't help as much as expected, as they'll want to keep the revenue stream alive. Solving this conundrum would require to deal with both side of the coin.
The real solution to this would be to give everyone and their dog a standardised online server with legally enforced privacy, and have sandboxed apps manage data in and out in a interexchangeable format, but I feel like I'm asking for peace on earth.
PS: we have banks for money, there should really be something similar for data.
That sounds like Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid project.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_pr...
FWIW, this is not an unreasonable ask either.
Android comes with auto backup, https://developer.android.com/identity/data/autobackup
App developers choose to collect more data than they need.
It's very hard to imagine a government who would have this too far up their list of priorities. Switzerland maybe. Then Germany, France. Maybe. It's hard to imagine it catching on between the monied interests who can influence government and the lack of consumer awareness of the problem it is solving.
All you need is for the app to provide the option of saving to local storage – your cloud server software provides a local storage endpoint and does the rest.
There is, but the majority of HN participants hate the existing banks with a white-hot passion, and rail against those banks, and prefer to store their cash under their mattress, and their photos in Chad's garage, and they actively discourage everyone else from trusting banks, especially the biggest ones.
Whether you’re trying to have a baby, buying her snacks, or planning beach/pool activities together, it’s very useful.
how is that even 10% more convenient than simply speaking? nevermind being worth giving away private data.
No way you can get someone to tell you that unprompted.
Now, of course I would prefer if that data was end-to-end encrypted.
to be clear, you think getting a notification about an incoming period is more convenient than being directly told about it? even considering you'll probably already be speaking to this person during this period (otherwise the notification is pointless)?
that barely makes sense even in the strict interpretation where it means that it takes less key presses to enter your period information on an app than typing "i'm on my period" every month (though i doubt you can beat typing "pms").
> No way you can get someone to tell you that unprompted.
and you can get people to, connect/sync with you or whatever, on yet another app, made strictly for this purpose, unprompted?
> Now, of course I would prefer if that data was end-to-end encrypted.
but the important question is the intensity of this preferrence. clearly, it's not as strong as your preferrence for... one key press less per month?
how is that saying? if one key press less per month is all it takes for you to give up private information, then i have a bridge to sell to you.
As the article stated, there are apps that don’t share this data with advertisers, and operate on jurisdictions with strong privacy laws.
We don’t live in a state where we would have no recourse against such privacy violations, and we don’t live in a state where women’s reproductive rights are being threatened by the government.
So we’re using the app.
If your bridge is useful, maybe we’ll buy it.