It's great they don't log that now, but that doesn't magically fix what they've been doing, unnecessarily, for months.
You're also going out of your way to defend Rabbit in this thread, with several multi-paragraph posts rebutting the same things. If they're not paying you, they certainly should be.
Where do you see that they're sending it to their servers? The article doesn't say that WiFi names were sent to the servers.
> You're also going out of your way to defend Rabbit in this thread, with several multi-paragraph posts rebutting the same things. If they're not paying you, they certainly should be.
No, I'm just correcting misinformation in this comment section. Some people are apparently only here to pile on Rabbit regardless of the truth, but the rest of us are actually curious about the facts of the situation.
It was unkind of you to write up an elaborate accusation just because you felt frustrated.
There's one very obvious reason why they they don't use the Android Settings app: it's built for displays at least 2x as tall. (some of the dozens more in [1])
Additionally, a major point of frustration for you seems to be a perceived refusal to admit there's no reason to send WiFi info to the server. TFA doesn't claim they are. Just logged locally in files.
Note everyone along the way clearly said "this is bad and I don't like it" along with facts they were trying to communicate --- its really annoying to have to add those disclaimers because people might be on edge, I can't imagine how frustrating it was to add them and still get the personal attack.
source: I have no love for Rabbit. I left Google in October to found an AI startup. At Google, I worked on Android for several years.
[1] it's unskinned, has a bunch of unnecessary settings, would complicate it with legacy nonsense in what was sold as simplification of legacy nonsense, and they're using something that makes it the face of the device (setting their APK as launcher? kiosk mode?).
Accusations of shilling for a company is not only uncalled for, in my eyes it greatly weakens your argument because I will have to assume that all you have left are ad hominems. Let your arguments stand on their own and leave the insinuations out of it.
It's basically saying that someone shouldn't care how weak your claims are because it's a business you're wrong about.
It doesn't work against people who care about the truth.
> They could have easily linked to the WiFi page;
The device has an extremely small display and no keyboard. The stock WiFi settings app would not be a good experience.