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Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours

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  1. paimapi · · focus · HN ↗
    I'll wait for someone to do a network call audit before I trust something like this

    I've been working on a small project running mitmproxy on a lot of 'privacy-focused' baby-tracking apps and only one of the ones I've tested doesn't send back a bevy of analytics data (none of which they openly promise to anonymize)

    some of the worst culprits had things like the Facebook SDK and Google Ads installed and sending data in spite of literally promising not to generate an Ad ID and three (Baby+, Nanit, and Pregnancy+) straight up had Microsoft Clarity sending data (ie basically screen recordings and full input logs)

    1. ahknight · · focus · HN ↗
      This has been around for years. It's just a rename. The code is open source and you or anyone else can go look at it (and many have).
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