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		Defletter on March 17, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Debloat non-rooted Android devices > dark patterns designed to extract as much data from you as possible It's insane how prevalent this is. The other day, I opened my calculator app and was met with a cookie banner (https://imgur.com/a/njJEiqY) - I uninstalled it on the spot out of sheer incredulity. The irony was that I originally installed Simple Calculator because it was simple and open source, so I presumed it would escape being a trojan horse for data collection. I guess not.

Dudhbbh3343 on March 17, 2024 [–]

All the "Simple" apps were recently sold to a company that's apparently filling them with ads.

There's a group that forked the original open source apps:

https://github.com/orgs/FossifyOrg/repositories

crtasm on March 17, 2024 | [–]

Wow, terrible news aboue the sale. I trust the copies I installed from f-droid won't be updated then.

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