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> dark patterns designed to extract as much data from you as possible It's insane how prevalent this is. The other day, I opened my calculator app and was met
by Defletter 3y ago
> dark patterns designed to extract as much data from you as possible
It's insane how prevalent this is. The other day, I opened my calculator app and was met with a cookie banner (https://imgur.com/a/njJEiqY https://imgur.com/a/njJEiqY) - I uninstalled it on the spot out of sheer incredulity. The irony was that I originally installed Simple Calculator because it was simple and open source, so I presumed it would escape being a trojan horse for data collection. I guess not.
- Dudhbbh3343 3y agoAll the "Simple" apps were recently sold to a company that's apparently filling them with ads. There's a group that forked the original open source apps: https://github.com/orgs/FossifyOrg/repositories https://github.com/orgs/FossifyOrg/repositories
- crtasm 3y agoWow, terrible news aboue the sale. I trust the copies I installed from f-droid won't be updated then.