Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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As per title. Move to a new app peeps, I found this 1 seems fine.
https://github.com/you-apps/RecordYou?tab=readme-ov-file
So they're trading on the smt name to....do a bunch of things that are the antithesis of what was attractive about the brand to begin with?
I wonder when the Fossify Voice Recorder will be dropped
Don't use it, the dev sold out
"simple"
Looks like a pretty simple breach of privacy to me.
(stock Android) I've yet to find any android call recording app that works on a device that doesn't have permission from Google to use the built in call recording features :/
~9mo ago they all got broken by an android update and haven't worked since.
Didn't "simple" recently get acquired and is no longer to be trusted? Correct if wrong but isn't Fossify the new preferred fork?
for fucks sake
Correct
Yes.
Thank you for linking an alternative. I actually like it even more than the enshittified one.
Finally! Now I can finally have a voice recorder spy on me!
That's what I was missing back in the 90s, playing with a portable tape recorder without any strangers eavesdropping on everything I said. Isn't tevhnology grand!
Android damn well ought to let you lie.
This program wants my contacts? Okay, have fun spamming Blarvis Davies, e-mail [email protected]. Camera? Random noise that looks like a lens cap. Microphone? Well make it real in this case, but if it's a photo app, quiet pink noise.
It's fine if the program doesn't work, work, with fake info. Obviously if I lie to an e-mail client then I'm either typing in addresses m'self or else I'm chatting up Blarvis. Maybe not even that, if I lie about internet access, and it looks like my connection just sucks.
But any program that tries to detect real versus fake info can be nuked off the face of the store.
If we're worried that your grandma will somehow enable those protections, but be unable to tell they're on, we can make the fake data even more obvious. After all - the program should never make any effort to detect this kind of chicanery. It can be blatant. [email protected]. A camera image of light grain applied over the words "you disabled camera permissions." Though the mic probably has to stay as a quiet hiss.
You need GOS for this, the function is called scopes combined with true separated user accounts. The shitty apps just get what I allow them.
Or you could just set the "mic" to blast some good ol' Rick Astley.
I don't want anything voice-controlled to misbehave. E.g. if the word "goodbye" makes it close out. These things are too stupid for context. You know the rules, and so do I.
Would be neat to have sandbox profiles for this!
Is it part of the apps that have been recently sold to a commercial company? If so, you have to uninstall it and download the "Fossify" equivalent to keep the open source version.
"Simple", they said
Greed is simple.
The fukin audacity!
The website is still under development
The site has working links to their Github repository, and the apps arrived in F-Droid.
That's fine. It at least links to their GitHub page for now.
Geocities. Geocities still lives on.
All that post needs to be truly complete is some marquee or blink.
Man, this brought me back to ye olden days where forums were where it was at. Thanks for this. 🥲
Okay, you've convinced me, inline images are a bad idea.
If you search in fdroid, a few have been released
I wanted to check out if that is true... and it is. Then I clicked on Simple Calendar > Trackers...
Simple Mobile Tool
A group of simple, open source Android apps without ads and unnecessary permissions, with customizable colors.
From the Play Store, emphasis mine.
False advertising at this point after the acquisition?
Sure, but good luck getting google play moderators to do anything about it
You could just use the version on F-Droid until Fossify releases their fork of it. But ya, wild how basically out of no where Simple Mobile sold out tough.