Virtually every app collects crash reports and anonymized analytics. Better for them to tell you about it than not.
Apparently my company was sending non-anonymized user data and during a privacy audit by a legal company, they really gave us a threat of being sued up the ass. And we are a MASSIVE company. I can only imagine smaller companies not realizing that.
Because it collects your data
Get with the program! You will be tracked and see ads. Now go sit down and be hopeless addicted.
That’s because it’s not a clock, it’s a private information stealing app disguised as a clock.
Well not necessarily, it could just require information like reading system time settings or location data, and then they have to have a policy explaining what and why to operate in some countries.
If the information never leaves the device then it doesn’t need a policy - privacy is not about what an app does in the device which never leaves the device hence never gets shared, it’s about what it shares with a 3rd party.
A clock doesn’t need to send system time settings information to a server since that serves no purpose for it - managing that is all done at the OS level and the app just uses what’s there - and that’s even more so for location data since things like determining the timezone are done by the user at the OS level, which will handle stuff like prompting the user to update the timezone if, for example, it detects the device is now in a different timezone (for example, after a long trip).
Early 2024 Google announced a privacy policy is required for all apps on the play store.
A privacy policy doesn’t just say how data is transmitted and used it can also just say data is not transmitted or used for any purpose.
Short answer: Google Play
Long answer: Google Play and/or people with special requests like https://lemmy.ml/post/12332630
Every time you look at the app, they share the time you’re seeing with every other user, it’s a privacy nightmare!
Ha! Unlike (some of) you plebs, I live in a very exclusive time zone with less than a billion people in it.
I would guess most timezones have less than a billion people. (Does China still have a single timezone?)
Now I’d be curious to see overall population based on timezone.
Edit: I found this https://distributionofthings.com/world-population-by-time-zone/
I was wondering if there are like island nations in the middle of the Atlantic or pacific that would be parts of time zones with super low populations. But I’m also guessing most such nations would want to associate with more populous neighboring time zones (for like commerce reasons, communication etc.) which is why time zones aren’t straight lines of latitude. So then that makes me wonder if for those reasons there are time zones with zero population.
Edit 2: And this https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/12504/least-populated-time-zones#:~:text=2 Answers&text=There is one timezone that,the UTC-12%3A00. Seems to answer my follow up question. Seems there is a timezone with no inhabitants.
Those were very interesting reads! Thanks for sharing.
I think China is still one giant timezone, yes.
Edit: There’s a relevant map men episode about that (and the islands thing) but I’m at work right now
Since the Play store requires one
At least Google is adhering to its own policies this time.
Helps that they got sued to hell and back recently.
Would rather they just be sued to hell and skip the back part.
Google harvests your sleeping patterns to sell more targeted ads.
More like Google harvests your __________ to sell more targeted ads.
waking up to see my underscores have been harvested GODDAMNIT GOOGLE!
Google harvests you to sell more targeted ads*
Matrix did it!
Very true… They harvest my nut sessions no doubt.
User is now nutting. Quick, send them some gooning ads
Post-nut-clarity ad placement is prime real estate in the ad business.
Good thing I never sleep.
Ever wonder why you’re getting ads for melatonin?
Even better, 24hr of un stopped ads.
I also have no reflection.
Here’s some ads for blood bags! Also, hot VILFs near you!
That make me laugh.
Just cleaning coffee from my phone now! Fuck you very much! 💕🤣😂
Maybe you should think on that a little.
But I block their ads… are they stupid???
Does it actually?
Yup.
Edit: why do you think google bought Fitbit?
IDK the way it was presented made it feel sarcastic.
This one is open source and privacy respecting.
Their privacy policy: https://www.fossify.org/policy/clock/
I’ve been annoyed by a minor change in the stock Samsung clock app for some time now. I just installed the Fossify one you linked.
Minor nitpick: 24h time doesn’t start with a leading zero.
Everything else seems exactly how it should be.
Thanks.
A pull request for that issue is open since April with no comments from the developers. Not a good sign :/
https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Clock/pull/62
EDIT: Looking further into it, the only merges and commits seem to be translations and GitHub metadata stuff, there has been no development since the fork :( - https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Clock/commits/master/
Ping it then
While inconvenient, you could build it yourself if it’s a feature you really care about and don’t want to wait and hope it gets merged.
everything everwhere is collecting and reselling data on you, me, and the rest of the connected world. even if they give you an ‘opt out’ you are not opted out
It seems like alarms can trigger Google Assistant routines. Alarm sounds can either use local ringtones or YouTube Music. These things, Google Assistant and YouTube Music, they are cloud services. I imagine that the clock’s privacy policy is there due to the usage of these cloud services (along with the rule from Play Store that requires every app to have a privacy policy).
most logical take. people seem to forget that modern apps are tied into all kinds of features that regular users expect to just work. if you want a bare OS with minimalist apps, install lineage or Graphene and only use apps from F-Droid.
The clock also requires location services if you want it automated instead of manually putting the time zone, which most people don’t do, so that’s another thing they mistanage in their privacy policy.
yiu do know that, every two seconds, it goes tiktok?
That policy better be really short.
This one is my favorite clock app. Open source and you can customize it so that shaking or flipping over the phone stops alarm or snooze alarm
