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Overlock, in Google abandons “Web Environment Integrity”
@Overlock@sopuli.xyz avatar

…yet.

SGG, in Google abandons “Web Environment Integrity”

Sadly with all this evil crap now days, they’ll bring it back in a few weeks or months, rename it to the "won’t somebody think of the children API"with a massive ad campaign saying anyone or any website not using the API are r*ping kids…

sphere_au, in Google abandons “Web Environment Integrity”

This was an utterly terrible idea to begin with and it’s still a terrible idea for Android apps as well. Apart from messing with ad blockers, this has the ironically “helpful” feature of allowing malware to be force loaded into your browser. If it ends up in Android, some popular app that uses it will get owned and then every user of the app will also end up getting owned as well.

Boomkop3,

Google is already sort-of imposing similar restrictions on Android trough their near monopoly on the play store and play protect

Boomkop3,

Great idea for Google, terrible for everyone else

BlackPit, in Google abandons “Web Environment Integrity”

Taking the win. Celebrating the fact there was a big enough backlash to get Google to pull their head in.

Facebones,

I switched back to Firefox and un-installed any chromium browsers at the news.

I will now be talking all credit for affecting this change and sharing it with nobody else. You’re welcome, internet! 🙏

errer,

I did the same thing you did. I’m sure the numbers were modest but Google must have noticed the trend…

runswithjedi,

Same, we did it!

Darorad,

Thank you for your hard work

CowsLookLikeMaps,

Unironically, thank you.

Vendetta9076, in Google abandons “Web Environment Integrity”
@Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works avatar

Abandoned for now. Maybe.

intrepid,

Of course. You didn’t think that they would take back a user-hostile greed-motivated feature without an alternative, did you?

DieguiTux8623,

One can use a different mobile OS if they don’t like Android at least.

intrepid,

You’re right - for the time being. But what I’m not willing to do, is give them the benefit of the doubt. They’re just waiting for all this backlash to blow over. Then they will start extending it to other components and eventually to the net, under some other name.

witchdoctor, in How to stay safe on Strava

Don’t use it in the first place, no need to share your cycling information.

Showroom7561,

Rather unfortunately, many clubs and events use these apps to coordinate routes. One ride event I did used RidewithGPS, and I never use it normally.

Alternatively, if you can export the GPX file, you can import it to your privacy-first app, like OSMand.

beta_tester, in How to stay safe on Strava
  1. Use osmand or opentracks instead. Opentracks is strava without (social) sharing
jlow,

Or Fitotrack, which has an even nicer dashboard (with horrible colors, unfortunately) to screenshot and send to friends to brag (not that I’d ever do that ^__^)

beta_tester,

Iirc opentracks works better with import/exports. Apart from that, both do their job.

lemann,

I switched to Osmand when my bike computer got stolen and tbf I prefer Osmand, especially with the widgets and stuff set up for the cycling profile

FutileRecipe,

Which OpenTracks? Google PlayStore has two.

beta_tester,

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.dennisgu…

www.f-droid.org/en/…/de.dennisguse.opentracks/

Dashboard (map) for opentracks

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.storchp.…

f-droid.org/…/de.storchp.opentracks.osmplugin/

Github page: github.com/OpenTracksApp/OpenTracks

And releases github.com/OpenTracksApp/OpenTracks/releases

But I can’t manage to add it to obtainium

itsaj26744, in India's biggest data breach? Hacking gang claims to have stolen 815 million people's personal information
@itsaj26744@programming.dev avatar

We don’t care ,only thing which matters is US v/s THEM

jacktherippah, in India's biggest data breach? Hacking gang claims to have stolen 815 million people's personal information

That’s more than half of the Indian population. Catastrophic if true.

WTF, in India's biggest data breach? Hacking gang claims to have stolen 815 million people's personal information

India ≠ Privacy

iso, in India's biggest data breach? Hacking gang claims to have stolen 815 million people's personal information
@iso@lemy.lol avatar

How the turntables. Now I will call them for spam lol

Mr_Blott, in India's biggest data breach? Hacking gang claims to have stolen 815 million people's personal information

Anecdotal, but last night I got half a dozen pings on my banking app asking me to authorise transactions for thousands of rupees 🤨

Had to cancel the card

Granixo, in India's biggest data breach? Hacking gang claims to have stolen 815 million people's personal information
@Granixo@feddit.cl avatar

Won’t really matter if all those 815 million can barely make an income.

Devjavu,

So now instead of being incredibly poor, they will starve to death. How fun!

Nobody, in India's biggest data breach? Hacking gang claims to have stolen 815 million people's personal information

Is this for real? Those are very big numbers.

bacteriostat,
@bacteriostat@lemmy.one avatar

The data leak is of AADHAR database. Which is a proof of identity that is required by everyone to avail government services. It is even used for SIM registration and opening bank account.

Government has been recently trying to link Voter IDs to AADHAR. It is already linked to Tax Account called PAN.

It has been turned it to a surveillance tool and this leak can be huge if true.

Nobody,

Yikes. Thanks for the info.

radioactiveradio,

And you can’t get a job without the AADHAR either.

glorious_puffy,
@glorious_puffy@lemmy.world avatar

Bruh? Aadhar database has individuals full fingerpront and retinal scan, how could they mess it up so bad

0x0, in German court declares “Do Not Track” to be legally binding

Good luck enforcing it.

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