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Re:We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Ap... by scarface74 on Monday June 17, 2019 @06:13PM (#20207878)
The application in question had access to all of your communications going to the internet from your device.

The whole purpose of computing is not to have access to all of your private information and to analyze it and sell it to third parties. They even admitted that their business model was fashioned after Onava’s that did just that and was bought by Facebook.

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Re:We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Ap... by megous on Monday June 17, 2019 @07:36PM (#20208355)
I was talking about Apple providing api to get information about screen time of other apps, so that these kinds of monitoring apps don't need such hacks.
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Re:We launched an app with $500k annual revenue, and then Ap... by scarface74 on Monday June 17, 2019 @07:48PM (#20208445)
This is also why Facebook bought Onava. Even without access via a VPN, that would have been enough information for Facebook to know that people were spending a lot of time on WhatsApp and to know that it was becoming popular. Would you be okay with that?
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