Ask HN: Why is "Tea" still on the App Store after so many data breaches? Furthermore, it’s being promoted in the “Top Charts” while the “App Privacy” card says they only collect email addresses. |
Ask HN: Why is "Tea" still on the App Store after so many data breaches? Furthermore, it’s being promoted in the “Top Charts” while the “App Privacy” card says they only collect email addresses. |
All good then!
I am always amused by corporate jargon used to cover up ineptitude.
In this case legacy data storage system = publicly accessible bucket
But Apple insists they do have a walled garden, and people buy Apple with that expectation, so I certainly hope and expect that Apple doesn't approve apps like these. Any app that does doxxing as a service should not be on Apple's app store IMO.
If I want to use an app with a horrendous security track record, I should be able to. See also: the plethora of other popular apps with horrendous security track records.
So, be careful what you ask for.
Kinda crazy. In any other industry they would not even allow you in the door without showing some king of understanding what you do.
You can't even sell hotdogs without food license. But in software - wild west.
It turns out there's actually quite a bit of precedent for doing actual Software Engineering, versus what most of the software world seem to be doing (presumably rotating a database by 90 degrees, duct taping it to another database, and sticking a front-end on it?)
*Unless your app has an IAP and is wildly popular, then we don’t mind
Theres something that changes in the brain when it learns that everything can be translated to cash value.
Women were convinced to trust the app as a safe space, but it never was for various reasons. First, as proven by the breach, privacy was not guaranteed. Second, I do not see how a women-only app made to complain on men can help any men get better in their behavior, instead of balcanizing society even more, creating camps and hatred. This is not safe in itself. It won't further women's condition in their relationship with men. It alienates men even more, gives arguments to the Jordan Peterson-style toxic masculinity influencers, and inevitably fosters toxic behavior in women too.
I appreciate that you managed to reenforce and give weight to those same fears and sexist talking points, though. I guess there is a market for both.
On the other hand I believe what you wrote can be summarized as toxic feminism.
They don't care, and nobody cares.
But they should.
Tea will just update the app / force update the app to fix these issues.
People put way more trust in the review process and app store gate keeping than it deserves.
But having drivers license stolen is fine.
Based on your submissions you seem to the creator of the tool, which is fine, but you need to disclose it. Also, it's not the done thing here to go through past threads promoting a product/service with a copy+pasted comment.