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So, don’t have Twitter account and/or app installed and you should be good?
by beretguy 3y ago
So, don’t have Twitter account and/or app installed and you should be good?
- kome 3y agono it's more like: don’t have a smartphone and you are good (perhaps).
- beebeepka 3y agoNo, having a dumb phone is not enough. A malicious actor can pretend they need to deliver an SMS to you, which may result in a network disclosing your location (anywhere in the world). Mobile networks probably don't honour aggressive probing for just about any peer but it's not like nobody can do this at scale. None of this is new.
- uoaei 3y agoProtip: the harder a company pushes you to download their app, the more they have to gain from it. 99.999% of the time it's because they want access to as much of your data as they can sneak out of your device, usually for selling it. One notable corollary is, the shittier the mobile browser webapp implementation is, the more they want to push people onto their app. See: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc.
- autoexec 3y agoExactly this. Never install a company's app unless you absolutely need to. Use websites instead whenever possible. If you do need to install an app, uninstall it as soon as possible even if you know you'll need it again at some point.
- philsnow 3y ago> the shittier the mobile browser webapp implementation is, the more they want to push people onto their app. See: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit Yelp is the gold standard in this regard, blithely pretending that they can't show you any photos (or is it more than a few photos? I avoid yelp on mobile so much I can't recall). It's probably the right move for them, because the photos are 99% of the reason I ever want to use Yelp. Reviews can be outright lies or simply written by people ~~with no taste~~ whose tastes are not simpatico with mine, but photos don't lie*. * well, nowadays I guess they can
- fsflover 3y agoAlso, no Signal.
- bkallus 3y agoThis isn't necessarily true. When you install the Signal app on an Android phone that doesn't have Google Play Services installed, it receives push notifications using its own notification daemon instead of using Google's. This, of course, has significant battery life costs.
- jessehattabaugh 3y agoWhat about WebPush on Firefox? That uses Mozilla's servers right? At least on Android? Could the govt be doing the same to Mozilla?
- t0bia_s 3y agoNot true. Battery double liftime on my LineageOS device without gaaps and other gservices that constantly connect to gservers.
- bkallus 3y agoAll I can say is that Signal uses more battery than any other app on my phone. Since my Pixel 7a's last complete charge 3 days ago, Signal has been in the foreground for only 2 hours, but it has been running in the background the entire time.
- t0bia_s 3y agoTry Molly. Fork of Signal. https://molly.im/ https://molly.im/
- lilsoso 3y agoThank you, I was looking for this answer. Signal, therefore, as a I understand it, is not vulnerable to this issue.
- xyst 3y agono, need to get rid of your smartphone completely.
- beretguy 3y agoBelieve me, I wish I could.
- zogrodea 3y agoI think your comment comes after reading this line: > - targeted users(s) following “foo” on X app It seems "X app" means just any placeholder app (not the new Twitter rebrand), although I might be wrong.
- beretguy 3y agoCorrect. That’s why I will continue calling it Twitter, to avoid confusions like this.