NFC payments app.
Same. It sucks that most banks wouldn’t jump on this train :(
Payment industry regulations are just too much for an open source free project
I know it’s an unobtainable dream, but a banking app for every bank on any platform.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_banking
All banks in EU have APIs for this purpose (also see PSD2).
Banks in the US use Open Banking APIs too, they won’t open it up for the public to use, though. Every company, not just banks, wants us to have their app on our phone.
This seems to be more of bank-to-bank protocol than a bank-to-customer protocol.
I was developing these apis for one of the biggest banks in central/eastern Europe.
You’re right that they are not intended for bank to customer access directly. What they allow though is for third parties (other banks, mobile apps, services) to access these apis. It requires a licence though.
Point is that a lot of banks in Europe allow to add other bank‘s accounts to their app. Also aggregator apps exist.
Banks could simply come together and develop an open banking standard for customers. Would probably save them a lot of money too, since the development of their stupid apps presumably costs them a lot.
Yeah, but think about all the data they can gather for their marketing team and the ads they can send over notifications.
no way bro that would be too simple and easy for the customer! nah best to just have tracker injected bloated apps infesting everyone’s phones.
Maybe thats not too dreaming in some countries… Brazil for example (use the translate that u prefer from pt-BR)
Just use a psyche processor on your Navi and then you can figure out the rest by yourself.
Software that burns down the server of any website that asks for data they don’t actually need.
A browser addon that utterly floods advertisers and trackers with dummy data. A single person using it is easy to single out. A thousand start to eat into the profits. 100k should make them go offline (DDoS’ed) with an interesting frequency.
There is one that clicks every ad it sees. Adnauseam.
Something like that, but that manages to click at least 50 times would be awesome
This would be amazing
health smartwatch app, with sleep n all features in some opensource format that could use any other app data… utopia, i know
GadgetBridge (Android). You need one of the (many) supported smartwatches. Data is easily exported and processable with, eg, R.
How about this? https://gadgetbridge.org/
I’m able to use it with a Mi Band 7 and I haven’t lost any of the original functionality
Apple health lets you export the whole shebang as XML if that helps at all
I’ve heard Garmin can also be used local only with the data exported?
ty all, ll look for them
I like the pinetime, although it definitely isn’t all that.
Gadgetbridge supports a lot of watches.
Signal to work for SMS again 🙄🙄🙄
For real! One of the things that made using Signal a non-issue for me was due to it being able to use SMS as a fall-back and therefore didn’t need me to push friends to also install another message app. I really only first installed it because it was the messaging app my local chapter of the SRA was using. I was excited that it did the shit I loved about the old Google Hangouts before they unnecessarily chose to break shit back out into three replacements. Being able to use a more feature rich messaging service when the people I am messaging also have it is awesome. But being able to still send a basic SMS from the same app without leaving is super nice. It is the main thing I always envied about how iMessage has worked basically forever.
Fortunately some of my friends and co-workers also have needed to install Signal for similar reasons I did or for remote therapy stuff. But it is so hard to get others to just install it just because it is privacy focused and since we already have Facebook Messenger/Discord/Snap/IG/Line and of course SMS. Also hate feeling like I am being pushy or annoying unless I am directly asked about apps to try or some specific reason.
I also have fond memories of using Gaim/Pidgin back in the day for being able to just have one IM client that could work with basically whatever any of my friends/contacts liked using. A universal chat/message client really seems like something that would be cool to see come back.
Sms isn’t secure or private, it doesn’t make sense to include it in a privacy focused messaging app.
I also would like to have a universal messaging client but sadly it doesn’t seem possible , just look at the recent reverse engineered iMessage apps, why would you waste all that effort reverse-engineering proprietary chat apps, when they can get (and will get) shut down by the service. Especially while better, open protocols exist.
I know right? Makes me so mad, I used to donate to them, but removing SMS is gonna kill uptake
Try beeper, it’ll let you use sms and signal (among others) on the same app, the app isn’t open source but their server infrastructure is open source and self hostable (it might not be easy to self host it though)
I wish!!!
Not sure if this already exists in some form, but I want something that always records where I’ve been. I am a very forgetful person and the Google maps timeline feature has been very helpful more than a handful of times. Unfortunately, it means that Google knows exactly where I’ve been also…
I just want to be able to check where I was the afternoon of a random Tuesday three years ago!
Someone mentioned GPSLogger & Location Map Viewer here: https://lemmy.ca/comment/5402752
I haven’t tried them yet, but that could work. I’d also love an easy-to-use version of this, it’s just so useful.
When did I last go to the doctor? What was that restaurant we ate at that night?
so helpful
I use GPS Logger as well. Everything is saved locally in a kml file. The trick is to find an optimal settings which gives you enough data points but doesn’t kill your batteey in the process.
This is something I’m very interested in too.
I just want GoG but for movies
There are some apps on fdroid that aggregate shows and movies from several websites
Sorry I should have clarified.
I want to legally buy my movie paying it to the creators, and be able do do whatever I want with my copy with me knowing I bought it just for buying it and being allowed to Own it without it being a DVD, because I don’t want DVDs, because I live in 16m² and I move way to often, while keeping the concept of buying it
just torrent everything. it’s so damn convenient and easy nowadays. if they dont wanna give you an easy way to buy and keep their movies, fuck em.
Buy online and webrip? 🤔
But I wouldn’t buy anything anyway (and also, who is using DVDs these days? 🫥)
Some people have already advanced to me too but blue rays and scan them when proposing GoG but for minutes
Something that produces a wealth of plausible web traffic on my connection and browser that woefully misleads anyone monitoring it as to what I actually am browsing. Rather than hiding my traffic or ensuring some hyper level of encryption I simply want to use maybe an LLM or something to create such a close facimilie to “normal” online traffic that my online fingerprint becomes useless as sub 5% of my traffic is actually real.
Essentially I want privacy through drowning out everything with noise. It seems like the harder the to unwind in the end if done in a clever way. That plus some basic security protections and I will feel fairly secure.
That’s the premise behind AdNauseam, albeit only for ads and not general navigation: It clicks all the ads in the background, so the data won’t ever target the real you.
Not sure if this counts, but a simple FOSS BIOS/UEFI option that could be installed on most desktops and laptops. The current options (Libreboot, coreboot) are very limited in compatible hardware.
Me getting ideas from this thread
please take them :)
I would like a browser addon that drops poisoned data when surfing the web. Instead of trying to restrict how much of my data gets collected, spread useless data across their sites.
Adnauseum does this. I think it simulates clicks to ads and corrupts your advertising profile.
As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile
I don’t get it though. The “listeners” could detect this and subtract 1 click from everything in the page. I guess that would only happen once ad nauseum gets popular.
Which one would they subtract?
Subtract all of them. That gives zero clicks except for the ones you manually clicked.
The trackers can’t tell which are manual clicks and which come from the plugin. That’s the idea. It obfuscates your tracking by random clicks you don’t see. It costs them data and makes tracking you worthless.
Maybe I misunderstood but it seems the plugin clicks all the buttons… every one… once.
So if the website notices that it can “unclick” everything exactly once.
Therefore only the manual clicks will survive because that button was clicked twice: once manually, and once automatically.
I think there is a setting to how often it clicks. From rare, 10%, to all, 100%. I understand what you’re saying about it now. I didn’t realise the option for all was there. I thought it was more random.
Android auto
There are some projects that already do this
A version of WhatsApp that doesn’t require full access to all your contacts to work properly. I have about 10 people I need to Whatapp with - I just want to add those people. Meta doesn’t need to know my Doctor’s phone number.
Not sure if its useful to you but grapheneos has contact scopes that lets you choose which contacts an application has access to.
You can’t do that because its proprietary software. Also meta makes money from data so it makes sense they would want to analyze your contacts
I never said it was attainable.
A local personal assistant that isn’t just focused on media consumption or purchasing. I want to ask about my most efficient route or ideal presents for my partner or a medical condition without it being data mined.
What about mycroft?