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A comment on FTC Settlement with Fertility-Tracking App for Facebook/Google SDK Data Sharing. Parent comment

Re:FTC Settlement with Fertility-Tracking App for Facebook/G... by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @10:56PM (#25771752)
No encryption, no backups, no on-device analysis (stats, charts), inconvenient to use: Not secure, not an app, not a good alternative.
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Re:FTC Settlement with Fertility-Tracking App for Facebook/G... by etrabroline on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @11:03PM (#25771813)
>not an app

That foible stands out as humorous. Why does a solution to a problem need to be a smart phone app? lol

Otherwise excellent points.

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Re:FTC Settlement with Fertility-Tracking App for Facebook/G... by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @11:12PM (#25771889)
I was specifically responding to:

> There is a secure app called garbage bin

hence calling out that it isn't.

(But sure, I actually am fine with non-app solutions when they're actually good)

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