• ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    You can either buy an app or pay with your data.

    No this implies you get a choice, which you don’t. You can get it for free and sell your data, or you can pay for it…and still also sell your data. The real money is in the data, they won’t give that up…ever.

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        1 day ago

        Many phones come with a weather app you can neither uninstall nor disable.

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        1 day ago

        you can deny location position to your weather app. show the weather for cities you are interested in. Get weather by notifications for “seemlessness”

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          1 day ago

          Yeah, I was just curious if the app could harvest it anyway via the SDK or something.

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            1 day ago

            the weather app can’t. Your cell provider can without any phone permissions. Google/Apple secretly could as well. These companies love your government more than they love you.

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              6 hours ago

              They just love whoever pays the most. And they cheat on everyone while getting paychecks from all directions.

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        2 days ago

        I’m not the person who posted the widget issue, but IME many FOSS solutions (not just weather-related) are more often than not aesthetically/UX crap.

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      2 days ago

      Yeah, that’s true. Often people will take the money from users AND from selling data. But you can (usually) verify if that’s the case by checking the app’s permissions required.

      The point stands, however: you either pay for the software with money, or with data - with the only exception being the unusually rare FOSS project here and there, which either lives in relative obscurity or grows to become large enough for the creators to either start requiring money, or just fold under the load…