“A calculator app? Anyone could make that”

Re:“A calculator app? Anyone could make that” by sneak on Sunday February 16, 2025 @11:41AM (#43069360)

I am seriously curious when it became not a violation of the principle of least surprise that a calculator app uses the network to communicate information from my device (which definitionally belongs to me) to the developer.

Where I am standing, that never happened, but that would require that a simply staggering number of people be classified as unreasonable.

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Re:“A calculator app? Anyone could make that” by jacobp100 on Sunday February 16, 2025 @02:24PM (#43070825)

The only network requests are for currency rates, and Sentry crash logs. I don’t collect analytics other than these crash logs

https://jacobdoescode.com/privacy

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Re:“A calculator app? Anyone could make that” by sneak on Sunday February 16, 2025 @04:00PM (#43071648)

It is the Sentry surveillance to which I refer. The crashes on my computer do not belong to you.

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Re:“A calculator app? Anyone could make that” by jacobp100 on Sunday February 16, 2025 @04:47PM (#43072043)

You can't please everyone. Do note these are only sent when something goes wrong in the app. To give you an indication of how little I collect, for the last 30 days, I can see 3,700 app sessions (only includes people who opted into Apple's analytics), and 14 reports of exceptions within the app. That's fewer than 0.4% of users.

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Re:“A calculator app? Anyone could make that” by sneak on Monday February 17, 2025 @06:14AM (#43077638)

You seem to have completely misunderstood me. The amount of data that is or isn’t collected isn’t relevant.

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