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> I'm confused by this example. Isn't this exactly the purpose of MightyText, the app he installed? Blog post author here. The purpose of MightyText (as far as
by gingerlime 13y ago
> I'm confused by this example. Isn't this exactly the purpose of MightyText, the app he installed?
Blog post author here. The purpose of MightyText (as far as I understand it anyway) is to allow me to use SMS through my computer at greater ease. I accept that in order to do that, technically I need to allow the app to access my Android SMS, contacts etc and "act on my behalf" to deliver messages.
I trust the program not to abuse this access I give it. I do not expect it to use this information to spy on me, even if this spying is merely for marketing purposes or to encourage me to use their program more. I think that's the creepy part.
- santosha 13y agoIs there a 'don't send me email about unread messages' option somewhere?
- gingerlime 13y agoThese were not unread messages. The list of names were (probably) taken from the last SMS senders on my phone, before I installed MightyText. Since I don't use SMS much, no new messages were delivered after installing it either. So MightyText went through my old messages, and then sent a reminder/engagement-email using those messages. EDIT: I've updated the original blog post to make this clear.