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Using commercial apps that could be websites seems like a mistake to me. Apps are for functionality that’s primarily local to the device.
If the news report mentions that 90% of the apps are glorified websites, and that almost all the websites violate basic privacy expectations, and that you now know that, and we know that, so we will now look exlusively at the other 10% of the apps, OK, this is fine. It’s fine because nothing is being silently swept under the rug.
The news report has to honestly and forthrightly grapple with the fact that the common perecption of what an app is may differ from how some experts in computing prefer to understand it (for good reasons, mind you).
That youtube icon or a facebook icon is what an app is, from the pov of a non-trivial segment of population.
Marketplace tested the Tim Hortons, PC Optimum, Weather Network, Facebook, Amazon and YouTube apps
And they all track you
Just for anyone who collects PC points, you can just install the app, screenshot the part with the bar code and uninstall it. Works fine. I also do this with SaveOn Foods.
I use Catima for all my points cards. It’s very barebones but has handles any card type I’ve put in. You can get it on official app stores, F-Droid, etc. Best thing, privacy focussed.
https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/me.hackerchick.catima
Edit: including PC Points.
And the “app only” PC offers can usually be activated through the website.
Why no CBC app? What does CBC Listen or CBC Gem do?
I wonder the same thing and haven’t investigated because I log in willingly and let them have my data, mostly. Like here. I’m cautious about other online services.
Reasoning: I own the corporation, they don’t sell me forward as a customer, and the commercial exposure is minimal. Also fuck all the other yankee-oligarch owned media that stinks the place up.
not that anything in here was a huge shock, still a nice article and accessible enough that I can send it to my mom.
I enjoyed the obligatory “x megacorp had no comment asked why they collect the amount of time you spend on the toilet at work” paragraph at the end of each section.
edit: spelling is hard
For those who might still be using Weather Network, try Weawow! :D
WeatherCAN works great. It’s the official Environment Canada app.
Good data. Interface even a mother couldn’t love.
I’ve never found any real issue with the interface. Now, their website…
OK I just checked the phone app and it’s notably improved, if still kind of clunky. Competitive field, weather apps, where interface really matters.
Is it FOSS? I’m strugling to find an accurate weather app on FDROID.
Check out https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather
Lots of options for weather data providers, national and international. Even have an option for open meteo.
Landed on Weawow a couple of years ago and I never anticipate changing. I only wish it had local tides, but that’s a big ask for a free app that has so much more.
Seems pointless when the correct amount is zero.
True. Though you need to remember: “when the service is free, you are the product.”
Facebook & Instagram for example do allow you to not be tracked in the EU - just pay them 10€/month instead.
Shockingly, basically nobody does.Same goes for most loyalty apps, you get discounts in exchange for your data.
Yeah but even when the service isn’t free these companies collect as much data as possible to sell if you’re not EU so maybe we need to retire that saying.
This week’s CBC Marketplace episode seems to be a banger! Will watch after work.
