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Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun (www.theatlantic.com)

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[–] wrekone@lemmyf.uk 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I get emails from school, with a link that opens a 3rd party app, which only displays a link that opens in the default browser. I've asked the school to just send me direct links to the announcements, but they say they can't. The site doesn't require authentication, but the URLs have UUIDs so I can't just guess what the link would be. The app is quite literally just a data exfiltration layer that does everything it can to make sure you can't bypass it. Good luck getting any other parents to give a shit though.

[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago

Good luck getting any other parents to give a shit though.

That's the big one, sadly.