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Jumbo: Privacy Assistant for iPhone
- gnicholas 8y agoAnyone have a sense of the business model? Seems like a handy way to help folks manage privacy, but without understanding how they plan to generate revenue I'm hesitant to get on board.
- giarc 8y agoLikely charge a premium for some apps.
- nyolfen 8y agofree idea for the devs: allow data export but sell an in-app search utility for archived data
- ekovarski 8y agoPierre Valade, the creator, stated on ProductHunt that they will monetize via a premium version in the near future. https://www.producthunt.com/posts/jumbo https://www.producthunt.com/posts/jumbo
- way66 8y agothat's correct. like Dropbox. thanks for sharing that link ekovarski Pierre, CEO
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- OnlyRepliesToBS 8y agowhat the fuck kind of joke is this
- kylek 8y agoThe sentiment is nice, but is it naive? (Even having accounts with any of the listed services feels dubious these days) Are there (or will there be) any features/benefits for people who don't have social media accounts?
- binaryblitz 8y agoManaging social media permissions is the point of the app. Is there any benefits of auto insurance for people that don't have cars?
- hedders 8y agoMaybe it's naïve. But I don't think it's really aimed at people who have already declined to participate in social media on privacy grounds. Rather, I suspect the idea is to provide an easier way of managing available controls for people who don't want to give up social media but who are somewhat concerned to reduce their privacy exposure to the world. That has to be a good thing - assuming it works and they're not doing anything nefarious in the background. All that said, since the app is free and since they claim they're not slurping personal data, I do wonder how they plan to monetise this.
- radley 8y agoI used it to remove old tweets, but nothing else. The presets aren't very flexible. The oldest tweets I could delete was anything more than 3 months old. I would have preferred a longer timeframe like older than 2 or 5 years. I didn't try it for Facebook. It has three general settings (public, friends, and just me). I've already tuned Facebook as best as I want. It wasn't clear what FB would overshare or under-share with Jumbo's settings.
- confounded 8y agoI also dislike how they’ve conformed to Facebooks notion of privacy (it’s private if only Facebook can see and use it, not others), as opposed to the traditional definition of retaining individual decision-rights over disclosure.
- e1ven 8y agoAgreed, but it's still better for most people than having things shared with everyone. This seems like the sort of app one might use to prevent James Gunn style problems from old content.
- way66 8y agoYes, I agree we need to add more options for Twitter. These will come in a future update, in May/June. Thanks for the feedback. For Facebook, the full list of Settings we support is here: https://blog.jumboprivacy.com/smart-privacy-for-facebook.html https://blog.jumboprivacy.com/smart-privacy-for-facebook.htm... Jumbo disables ads personalization, face recogonization, and soon location data storage. Feel free to ask me more questions. Pierre CEO Jumbo
- e1ven 8y agoThis looks really nice - There are browser extensions to do a lot of these things, but those don't work on iPhone, so having a native app is a nice touch. I also appreciate that they know they're selling to a privacy-conscious audience, so they go over the top in assuring that it's all done client side! Very nice so far.
- jammygit 8y agoI like it on first impression but I wonder whether tools like this will convince people they have privacy, when really they are getting a better interface to semi-privacy settings in existing privacy invasive apps.
- jrowley 8y agoI really like the idea of the app because it lowers the barriers to entry for an entire set of people who otherwise might not take the necessary steps to increase their privacy. These are baby steps for sure, but maybe one day all these people will be ditching google for duckduckgo and protonmail, etc.
- way66 8y agoAbsolutely, I’ve designed the product so that my mom can use it. She can’t use a Chrome extension, but she can download an app like Jumbo.
- Nextgrid 8y agoI’m willing to bet good money this app still leaks data in the form of app analytics.
- jammygit 8y agoFrom the privacy policy: "Analytics Our iOS application can send analytics to our analytics providers: Segment and Amplitude. We do not track or store any personal information in our analytics. Instead, we ask Apple to generate a unique deviceID which we use as a unique token for analytics purposes. Our analytics are 100% anonymous."
- lmkg 8y agoAnd where does Segment send it to? My experience with Segment is that it's not an analytics tool, but rather a tool that provides a single API for sending data to your fifteen different analytics tools.
- way66 8y agoSegment sends the data to Amplitude. Pierre, CEO, Jumbo.
- jklinger410 8y agoSo yes.
- qrbLPHiKpiux 8y agoI'm in my mid 40's. I've learned in my life of computing since the TI-99/4A is that privacy is not an app or program or device... It's all analog - what the end use does and does not do. I don't see this really pushed today, the personal responsibility of personal data.
- module0000 8y ago>> what the end user does and does not do You hit the nail on the head, I couldn't possibly agree more. People have to think(ahead - sometimes quite a ways) before they act.
- macintux 8y agoThe problem is worse than that: what I do personally doesn’t protect me because any number of other people are uploading my information to Facebook for me!
- tqwhite 8y agoPaywall. Don't bother clicking. You can't read it.
- jklinger410 8y agoMan I'm so pumped for iOS users!
- thanatropism 8y agoThanks for not ruining your sarcasm with the joy-killing "/s" tag. Sarcasm should run the risk of being misunderstood, godamit.
- thanatropism 8y agoMy years-long history of using Facebook as an idea log (often with long long posts) is what has stopped me from deleting altogether. This promises to be a simple way of downloading everything. Facebook should be scared. It's at least X% of the lock-in they have on people.
- dddddaviddddd 8y agoYou can just download an archive of your Facebook data, no need to use this app: https://www.facebook.com/help/212802592074644 https://www.facebook.com/help/212802592074644
- aphextron 8y agoThere’s also a plethora of parsers available at this point to output your data to any format imaginable https://github.com/ownaginatious/fbchat-archive-parser https://github.com/ownaginatious/fbchat-archive-parser
- tlavoie 8y agoYou know you can just go and download your FB content, right? You follow a couple links, wait a while, and then they let you know when you can download your zip file. I downloaded mine, read some stuff that made me think a bit, and then I finished up with deleting my account.
- oh_hello 8y agoI like the concept. Simplified privacy settings management and content deletion make a lot of sense for non-technical users.
- dstaley 8y agoI'm perplexed as to why this is an iOS only application. Surely most of the actual API calls are being done server-side? It have made more sense for them to launch a web app instead while they expanded the product offering, and then brought it to native apps.
- way66 8y agoYou are raising a good question.. Jumbo works 100% client-side, that's why we have built it as a native app. You can read more on our architecture on our blog: https://blog.jumboprivacy.com/secure-jumbo-never-sees-your-data.html https://blog.jumboprivacy.com/secure-jumbo-never-sees-your-d... It's quite cool. We don't have any servers processing your data. Pierre, CEO Jumbo.
- aphextron 8y agoNobody works for free. If there’s no direct cost, you are the product not the customer.
- way66 8y agoYou’re right. Like Dropbox has a free version, and a paid one. Right now we are launching the free version, and paid features will come later.
- rdl 8y agoPretty cool that this is done client-side, although it does need more presets. I'd also want to be able to export/import my old posts, or at least manually review, but that's getting into the kind of features I'd expect from a paid tool.