And this was only the vendors page. There was another main page for advertisers.
It is scandalous how much information is gathered for such a simple app.
Edit: I already unticked all the ‘legatimate interest’ ones.
Whenever I come across an app like this, I delete it right away. I’m not going to go through all the settings. I can get by just fine without these kinds of spy apps.
I miss when you could toss an app developer $5 and never have to deal with ads or data mining. Nowadays everything is a subscription model absolutely riddled with both.
ridiculous prices too, i will never subscribe for $4.99/week for a currency converter
When does it ask you these? In the US, apps don’t even give you a choice. I have to have a separate app to block them. Now I just try to avoid any non FOSS apps in general because I can run the blocker and a VPN at the same time.
Unticking legitimate interest is a dark pattern made to waste your time. That toggle is literally pointless since it doesn’t involve consent, the only way to stop “legitimate interest” brokers is to sue them and demonstrate they do not in fact have it
i like this: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.llamacorp.equate/
Equate is solid, and converts everything.
plus is a calculator too, i love it
This is maybe the most logically extreme example of malicious GDPR compliance.
Wait a month and you get to do it all over again!
Seriously, if you click accept all the app/site will remember your choice forever, but mess with the settings, they “forget” your choice in a month and you’re looking at that same page again.
And you showed it after you went through there and turned off all the legitimate interest ones…
Yeah, every time I stumbled with and app with that pop-up I immediately uninstall it…
Out of interest, why do you need a whole app for that? What does it do that you couldn’t do on search?
Need to compare multiple currencies at the same time and look at the historical data to evaluate. Often also need to calculate.
I used XE for years but the new ‘improved’ version is the epitome of enshittification. All useful features were removed including calculator and x and Y axis and main page
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.offlinecurrencyconverter.app
There’s several on fdroid if you’re looking for alternatives.
Get an old version then? Though, maybe even that’ll stop working at some point.
I think thats the standard google add bullshit. Thit doesn’t feel like it complies to eu law, but somehow it does apperently.
And what anoys me the most about this is that legitimite interest already includes saving all your data, building a profile of you and selling that data. So what the hell is not legitimate interest? Selling your soul?EU law mandates, that the trackers must be off by default.
This came free on my fucking flip phone. The hell kinda malware apps are you even installing? Don’t you know you can just use a foss app instead?
