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by hestefisk 2556 days ago
Agree with the sentiment here. Whilst I have all the deepest sympathies for the guy, it does seem like a hack to tunnel it through a VPN to get it working. One could argue, the right approach would be if Apple opened up the hooks to measuring app usage for any 3rd party app, but I don’t think that will happen any time soon.
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scarface74 2556 days ago
You would actually trust a third party app to track your usage?

Apple actually had to lock out Twitter and other apps from logging what other apps were on your phone for analytics.

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lostmsu 2556 days ago
Not only I've done it for years, it was also social, e.g. my friends could see it. The app doing that used to be called Wakoopa, now defunct.

IMHO, it was great!

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scarface74 2556 days ago
If this is the same company, you couldn’t possibly be okay with this?

https://wakoopa.com/

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lostmsu 2555 days ago
They dropped the original product long time ago.
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threeseed 2556 days ago
a) Facebook used app usage data to acquire and crush competitors.

b) Advertisers could use it to personally identify you.

c) Criminals could use it to blackmail you e.g. using Tinder app whilst married.

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