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There are downsides with downloading their app just to input bad data, but it's a fun thought.


edit: While we're at it we might as well offer an alternative app to people.

I posted in [email protected] to collect recommendations for better apps

The post: https://lemmy.ca/post/32877620

Leading Recommendation from the comments

The leading recommendation seems to be Drip (bloodyhealth.gitlab.io)

Summarizing what people shared:

  • accessible: it is on F-droid, Google Play, & iOS App Store
  • does not allow any third-party tracking
  • the project got support from "PrototypeFund & Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Superrr Lab and Mozilla"
  • Listed features:
    • "Your data, your choice: Everything you enter stays on your device"
    • "Not another cute, pink app: drip is designed with gender inclusivity in mind."
    • "Your body is not a black box: drip is transparent in its calculations and encourages you to think for yourself."
    • "Track what you like: Just your period, or detect your fertility using the symptothermal method."

Their Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@dripapp

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (21 children)

What's the point of spamming one specific menstrual tracker / women's health app? Lack of better hobbies? Or is there some controversy around the company behind it? Or just general state of freedom and surveillance in the USA?

[–] Ellvix 72 points 1 month ago (19 children)

The idea is that they'll be used to track pregnancy and hurt people in certain states. Chaos will help the situation.

[–] caoimhinr 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A government hunting illegal abortions would only care about data that shows signs of pregnancy followed by early termination, random data will never match those criteria and as such is utterly useless.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Like not having a period for 4 months, then having a period again. You're expecting legislature and law enforcement to actually know science things.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also, Google/Apple metrics already know if you're a boy or girl based on soooo much other data and trackers, that it's completely trivial for this company or any other company to just filter out any data being reported by a male.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Clearly gotta start listening to truecrime podcasts and let some young kids muck up your YouTube algorithm and they won't know anymore what your gender is

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