@damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world
Flo period tracker sells user data to Meta and Google
2026-04-28 13:54 UTC
Replies (15)
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@iByteABit@lemmy.ml 2026-04-28 14:17
Is there anything FOSS like this?
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@airikr@lemmy.ml 2026-04-28 14:21
Use softwares that are open sourced and be happy. There’s plenty of period tracking apps on F-Droid. Open sourced softwares can’t hide trackers from users since the source code must be up-to-date. If not, people will be suspicious. And if a open sourced software do use trackers, the community will complain… a lot!
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@Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 14:48
Because of course they would sell this data, fuck all these people
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@64bithero@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 14:58
And this where I as a trolling CIS male might be able to do some good
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@CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 2026-04-28 17:43
The idea of putting this info on my phone has always seemed bonkers to me. Just keep a journal of it, on paper, if this is so critical for you to know for some reason. My daughter used to use one but she deleted it as soon as the Roe v Wade stuff happened, she had no reason to be using it anyway
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@EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-28 18:28
I love fucking up their data. Haha, bitches I had no ovaries to begin with, and now you think I’m ovulating soon! Mwahahaha :3
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@Malyca@lemmy.zip 2026-04-28 18:49
We can’t trust any of them. They’ll sell it to the government for those pregnancy lists too, to combat abortion.
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@FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-28 22:29
The lying the app did in their priv policy is shitty behavior. But not unusual behavior. The phone app ecosystem is a hot mess of treachery.
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@boogiebored@lemmy.world 2026-04-29 02:20
so the pentagon has it
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@pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-29 03:07
Just checked out both drip and Bluemoon, both FOSS from F-Droid with local only data Bluemoon lets you import data from Flo, but to export data from Flo, you need to make an account with Flo, it seems. (It also let’s you import data from Clue, but I don’t use Clue.) drip lets you import data just from a CSV file, nothing that seems specific to any app format. So far I like drip a lot better, TBH; the UI is more intuitive to me, and it seems more featureful. Its prediction also lines up with Flo after putting in data since January. However, I have just downloaded both apps. My plan is to keep Flo around for one more cycle while I compare it to the others, then kick Flo to the curb for becoming enshittified spyware, with sad nostalgia for the life-changing product it originally was to me.
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@janus2@lemmy.zip 2026-04-29 04:43
“What are you feeling today?” “egg white” “c r e a m y”
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@dasrael@lemmy.zip 2026-04-29 05:36
That makes me feel creamy…
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@ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-30 21:50
Poison the data. It’s time for all you men to go log your manstrual cycle.
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@ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 2026-04-28 14:25
A lot of women had stopped using these types of apps ever since the forced birthers overturned Roe, knowing this type of thing could be used against them.
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@flactwin@lemmy.zip 2026-04-28 23:05
and now they know about you lot what you not)))))))