Please don't log my calculator inputs it's more embarrassing than my browser history is.
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2024
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Seems like everyone is going out of their way to tell us how much they "value" our privacy. The value they place on it wouldnt even get a burp from an atm machine
The way I see it, the companies value our privacy in the sense that they want to take it - to extract that value.
We value your privacy. So if you don't value it, then give to away to someone who does. In fact, just lets us take it anyway regardless.
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Why didn't every privacy concerned people switched to foss already?
I know right, I've been using CalcYou and it's pretty good!
I've been on Calculator++ for ages now. The UI looks a bit different, but it seems like they do all the same things.
Tossing it out there as another option.
I love Calc++!
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It doesn't calculate anything, but sends it to an AI server and displays the number from the answer.
I thought it was the color scheme that was hell at first.
It's some fresh hellish bug that Android has introduced, it'll adapt the theme based on your wallpaper. It's a bug because it always chooses that 70's brown color. And yes, before you ask, you're not able to disable it. You have to reset your theme everytime you change your wallpaper.
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Yes!
My Xiaomi Redmi 11 keeps telling me the Calculator can't use the network (why?) and keeps asking me to accept the privacy policy.
Also the app wallpaper - the one that changes the locked screen background image (important complex stuff /s) - also keeps asking me to accept the privacy policy.
And, as far as my reading of the policy goes, these privacy policies are just the one, it's not a different one for each app.
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It's possibly compliance. I know google requires you to have a privacy policy to even publish an app, no matter what.
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The calculator is collecting anonymous information about your calculations to calculate whether the operation operators are operating properly.
Operate on deez nutz.
They are just promising not to share with the government or any private entity that you are the idiot who had to use a calculator to find half of 17, just in case you were worried about someone finding out.
You recently calculated 34*5+1. Do you want to buy a new washing machine?
You recently calculated
I don’t know why but this part kills me
Something about this just doesn't add up.
If only there was a way to get to the root of the problem.
I can’t even imagine what data there is to collect for an application this simple.
That privacy policy better be really short.
On the bright side, a simple calculator ought to have plenty of free and open source alternatives that don’t harvest any data.
That privacy policy better be really short.
Clicking through to the policy from within the app just sends you to the general policy across Google. Very long.
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Well, everything else that's not calculations.
This is why everyone is trying to have their app installed, there's a lot of information that the phone provides, and now you no longer get warned what data is available.
I believe it's about how often the app is used. Advertisers label people with "gullible" and stuff like this, so when you use a calculator regularly, that may be a hint that you are not.
Or maybe that you are, if your dumb ass is entering basic-ass calculations. 😅
True. In the end, they are gonna use some statistical methods to find what is more true. Using also all the other data they have about you.
Whatever they can get their grubby hands on
Your calculator would like access to your contacts.
Your calculator would like permission to send and receive phone calls.
Your calculator would like permission to view and delete emails.
Please click AGREE to proceed.
There is also information that is provided that the phone no longer asks/announces.
How else are we supposed to be able to share calculations to your social network????
Every orher day I enter sets from my workout so my dumbass can remember when I have done 200 squats. My knees hurt.
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If you type in 867-5309, Jenny will call you back!
That's because she is very old and lives in a retirement home. She has nothing else to do but prank call people.
They want to monetize any proofs you find.
Now get to work crunching numbers.