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I really shouldn't be astonished, but I am 😡. (europe.pub)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social
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I really shouldn't be astonished, but I am 😡.

This is, of course, utter abuse of user data, but what's even worse is that Google allows this.

#Conversations was taken off Google Play, and forced to remove its contacts linking feature for #privacy reasons, despite the fact that no contact data was ever uploaded to any servers, yet #Citymapper is allowed to share highly sensitive precise location data with third parties for the sake of #profit?!

🀬 Goodbye Citymapper!!

Thankfully we're not exactly short of #opensource alternatives: I love how #Γ–ffi displays the timetables, but we also have #Transportr and KDE's #KTrip (which not only works on Android but also on #mobilelinux).

#privacymatters #publictransport #surveillancecapitalism #foss
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

Screenshot of Android warning about Citymapper's new abuse of user location data. It reads "Citymapper. Your location data is now shared with third parties for advertising or marketing".

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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

is that Google allows this.

Just wait until you see what data google collects

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    • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    @aerion @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social business as useually

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    [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    @aerion @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

    To add to the list: I just came across @bimba, which doesn't work on my crappy device*, but their attitude seems solidly in the right place!

    https://bimba.app/

    * EDIT: it does work, it was probably my own fault.

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    • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    @aerion @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social LOL getting rid of cittymapper. Thanks for the heads up.

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    @aerion @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social The main downside of ktrip is that it doesn't mention the country of the cities in the search results, it's particulary annoying for cities that share the same name but are from different countries.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    @stemy @aerion @kde @kde@lemmy.kde.social That's going to be fixed in 25.08, as long as the data is available the location search will show country, region and city below the station name.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago

    @VolkerKrause
    Like KDE Itinerary (one of my favourite KDE apps, together with KDE Connect), KTrip keeps getting better with every release.

    Even though I've got both KTrip and Transportr installed, my go to travel planner has been Γ–ffi for quite some time, because of its fabulous timetable display. I need to break my habits and make KTrip my sole app for a while.

    @stemy @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

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    • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    @aerion
    Google has always grinded an axe for Conversations. Too bad because that's how he gets funding for it vs fdroid.
    @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    @ChemicalTribe
    Google does this to a lot of developers, arbitrary decisions, with often little to no recourse.

    It's the same story on YouTube, most recently with @geerlingguy and his video on installing LibreElec, a totally legal endeavour that does NOT depend on or promote piracy.

    He got it restored in the end, but I doubt he'd have managed that if his channel hadn't been the size it is.

    I wish I could entirely liberate myself from Google, but when it came to choosing between a Pixel phone + GrapheneOS or the hyper ethical and sustainable Fairphone 5, I had no choice but to pick the latter. So, I'm still tied to a 🀬 Google account.

    I hope GrapheneOS will consider supporting the Fairphone range of phones at some point, as they offer even longer support than Google does for their Pixels, making it an ideal and stable target platform.

    #grapheneos #fairphone #degoogle

    @fairphone
    @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    @aerion
    Not to be that guy, but the fairphone 5 runs the de-googlified /e/ @e_mydata just fine. (Writing from one now).
    Thanks to the very open way #FairPhone handles its OEM codes installing it without rooting it was a breeze.
    You can check out https://e.foundation/
    @ChemicalTribe @geerlingguy @fairphone @kde @kde@lemmy.kde.social

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