🙄 PHP is great for most things. I can’t believe it’s 2024 and this terrible relic from 15 years ago still persists.

👌👍 putting your data on random servers if which many if not most do not have a commercial or liable entity is private. Right.

The idea that your data is private here is a lol.

I haven’t used big 0 or algorithms in my 15 years of professional coding. It’s just not important unless you work for a Google and even then you’d have support.

I’m going to just advise you to consider the nature here and if you really want to self host. Unless you really think you’ve put enough effort in to make sure your running HA and are prepared to support.

Consider when you may need this most, in an emergency where you ain’t going to be troubleshooting with a family members health on the line.

IMO, I have zero interest in that level of responsibility.

Because unemployment is 3.7%. Tech sits around 2%. This person’s experience isn’t representative of most tech workers experiences, at least in the US.

Folks are probably riled up over the bombings.

Oh God, then know about my very very secret love of Jim Gaffigan and cars. Maybe they’ll convince me to buy a BYD over Tesla!!!

Oh God, the horror!

Tiktok is fine. The hate over a video app is absurd.

Lolol you just going to ignore that brands like Porsche are consistently in the top 3?

Expensive cars mostly fail because people who can’t afford them don’t do basic maintenance. The only real German brand when any reliability issues are Merc.

No they can’t. Reddit is their spurned ex girlfriend they are going to stalk through out college.

X too.

👌

Phone hardware (cpu type, number of course, hardware ids, screen dimensions, dpi, memory usage, disk space, etc)

Common. Steam does this. It’s behind a permission these days and nothing is custom or special about this in any way.

Other apps you have installed (I’ve even seen some I’ve deleted show up in their analytics payload - maybe using as cached value?)

Patched out and was common at the time via Androids API. Again zero secret sauce, most apps pulled this.

Everything network-related (ip, local ip, router mac, your mac, wifi access point name)

Bullshit provide some verification in the least bit. It’s a random anonymous redditor mouthing off.

Whether or not you’re rooted/jailbroken

Again in the API patched out several years ago

Some variants of the app had GPS pinging enabled at the time, roughly once every 30 seconds - this is enabled by default if you ever location-tag a post IIRC

More unverified bullshit.

Pro tip: when your source is a random redditor who definitely worked for tiktok maybe consider for a second that someone is just making up bullshit and reaching to push their objective.

You’d think for being the most spyware app on the planet you could provide a source from a professional and not a redditor.

They set up a local proxy server on your device for “transcoding media”, but that can be abused very easily as it has zero authentication

🙄 I’ll bite. What custom spyware?

No, not at all. And there are more tools than ever to monitor, track, and notify high usage.

PEBKAC or whatever the modern equivalent is these days.

Vote DNC and hate it.

Not even remotely close to true. Services are mostly half assed. Doing them correctly is time consuming and expensive.

Whatever you say lol

🙄 if I had a dime for every time I’ve heard an engineer say I got this for backups…