Is it free?
Because it’s Google’s proprietary garbage app. Use FOSS alternatives from F-Droid instead.
I’d rather have a Foss project with a simple privacy policy that clearly says they store nothing than one that has no policy at all
Privacy policies are BS anyway. Better to just not have an app that depends on a server or entity.
A privacy policy is only legally required when you actually collect user data. Most devs don’t write a privacy policy for no reason, so seeing one can often be suspicious. Btw if you are worried about a FOSS app tracking you without disclosing it in their privacy policy, if this is the case, F-Droid would display it under the Anti-features section.
Do you happen to know a good alternative to Google’s Clock app on F-Droid?
Yes, I use and recommend Clock You: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.bnyro.clock/
+1 for the Minecraft Clock mentioned in another comment tho
CalcYou seems great, and it’s on F-Droid.
Crash reporting, probably.
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They gonna rat you out to the feds if you divide by zero.
Feds/0
Checkmate, atheists
Please don’t do this. This will spawn feds continuously forever.
Or nullifies their existence in my own happy world
Uh oh.
Just use CuteCalc instead.
That’s so cuuuuute
A teenager making a simple and cute calculator and deciding to share it with the world and the world takes that, people contribute, and project emerges
This is actually inspiring
My recommendation: get rid of that app and go for a zero-tracker one:
… or any other great FOSS calculator out there.
Oh nice. Thank you. Installed.
I use opencalc, stick to FOSS software as much as humanly possible.
We send your calculations to your fourth grade teacher
[aggressive ruler-slapping in the distance]
Shows them with the “you’re not going to have a calculator everywhere” talk
Nothing is safe.
No. Nothing is also not safe.
That’s so irrational.
It doesn’t add up
It’s also pretty divisive.
Even unnatural
Transcendental
Unreal
A privacy policy can be “we don’t collect your data.”
…is it, though?
The actual menu item goes here: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Which, without reading it, is, “we collect all your data. For perfectly good reasons though, trust us!”
Because it will be reporting how often you look at 8008135
This ^
I can’t believe you use the calculator for 2x2! Do you need help from mathtutors.com? It’s only $5 per month but just for you we’re applying a special rebate which puts your offer at a much lower $12 per month.
We also noticed that you calculated numbers near 700,000…are you try to buy a house? And also you keep dividing things by 9 and 12. Are you expecting a baby soon?
stockpile on handhelds because soon even those are going to be data connected
I work for a company that requires everything to have a privacy policy that meets some minimums. We’re technically not supposed to even use Google websearch because putting any question into it potentially sends company information into the world and out of our control. That one’s not really enforced, thank goodness.
Without a privacy policy, I guess the calculator app could scrape the numbers you’re entering, plus, idk an email and a OneNote entry for context, to reverse engineer the latest doodad we’ve been designing.
It’s difficult to imagine what numbers from the calculator alone could be used for, but combine it with other information and you’ve got a problem.
bruh what industry is this? Defense?
Defensish. Close enough that we overlap some and have a lot of intense rules to follow.
These people throwing company private information into chatGPT are absolutely wild to me. I’m waiting for someone from an actual defense company to get busted and make headlines for putting like missile defense system specs in, and then it’s part of the dataset used to feed answers to everyone else.
If there are only two digits after a decimal and less than four digits before, you could probably figure out if someone was doing budgeting using their computer. Like if the user imput is:
99.99 + 27.63 + 127.48 + 4.99 + 2.99 + 10 + 283.57
…that looks a lot like someone calculating monthly bills and expenses.
Use the one that comes with Lineage OS. Alternatively you could use one off of F-droid