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An app that could be a website and wants a huge intrusive set of permissions? So just like every corporate social media thing ever.
"Version 47.0.0"? LOL
Producing a working-enough vibe coded app takes many iterations.
I'm sorry, but it controls vibration??? Does it make your phone into a sex toy!?
It was a feature specifically requested by Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski for their government airplane sexy times. And the developer forgot to remove it.
Legitimate criticism aside, I found it funny they underlined "receive data from internet" among the other scary permissions.
That's the one thing a news app presumably should be doing
NOPE
Are you surprised
"What are we? China?"
Why do they pretend they didn't create mass surveillance and data collection.
Ah, spyware.
yep, there is ZERO chance i'm installing trumps digital herpes on my phone.
Trump has never been much for requiring consent, especially when spreading herpes.
Yup, they somehow managed to bundle obvious spyware and bold-faced propaganda into a single app, and somehow plenty of people seem okay with that.
I honestly have stopped caring about this particular kind of spyware. Too obvious to be a really important part of life's fabric. More interested in easter eggs that persist over decades and nobody sees them because their essence is architectural. And exists from conception of a system till its death.
Some thoughts:
- Its good to have an easily-acessible resource for official govt info
- However, The White House already has publicly accessible RSS feeds. This does seem to go beyond that with videos and live streams though.
- This will most certainly be used to spread and give credence to propaganda
- Given the aptitude of this admin, I give it about a month before its hacked and used to spread false information.
- No need for a hacker there, it will have false information from the start
Yes but just unofficial false information
We must consider the possibility it is hacked to spread true information too
Honestly? I would expect hackers to actually spread the truth here for once.
Could be that too!
Decent chance that when it is hacked, the hackers will actually use it to spread true information.
I wonder if this somehow gets around the requirement that all presidential communication to the public needs to be recorded.
What’s fucking asshole ad network is Newsweek using where their auto play video ads have audio enabled? Closed that tab damn quick
Do you need a recommendation for an adblocker?
What are these "ads" that you speak of?
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/gov.whitehouse.app/latest/
As usual: this can be interpteted as Malware. That said, many apps are like this these days: full of trackers and way too many permissions. Most people never know or care.
Mildly interesting: one of.the trackers seems to be related to Huawei.
EDIT: Someone decompiled and analyzed the app in detail: https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app
"this meeting could have been an email" --> "this app could have been a website"
LOL, this is what they've been teasing?
I genuinely look forward to seeing what the conspiracy folks have to say about this. They were already spun up about this being a final declaration of nuclear war. Such womp womp.
Can somebody say PROPOGANDA?!
*propAPPganda
How much you want to bet that it's 100% vibe coded, tracks your every move, and has full access to all sensors?
Hope I'm wrong.
Well at least if it’s vibe coded it’s likely to be wrong about the data, anyways, while they are too stupid to retrieve it.
We at least know the second one is true
Anyway; already added to my filterlists:
Why expires: 12 hours?
Because I change it frequently and it's basically a personal list for me.
Vibe coded no doubt by smol bols
Yikes
Ah, the next step of Gleichschaltung.
Aint no government app ever going on anything I own. I dont care what government it is either.
Don't listen to their filtered content! Listen to our filtered content!
Can I get a full list of features on the Iran war after all these cryptic posts?