[embedding-shape]

My partner uses the app this article is about (Flo) and I have an account there too in order for her to share the data with me.

I guess you could do it with some sort of P2P sync with cryptography involved locally instead, and/or E2E for stuff sent via the servers. Kind of surprised me they didn't have E2E already, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised anymore.

[phoronixrly]

Well... They share their data with you and a bunch of adtech companies...

[JohnFen]

Or, you know, she could just track it without any app at all and share it with you in person.

[dwedge]

You could also be snarky without internet access

[coldpie]

Computers are useful tools that do useful things for people. It is reasonable for people to want to use them to do things they find useful. They don't have to function like spy devices, but we've chosen to highly reward the people who have turned them into spy devices, so they do. We could choose to do something else with them instead. For example we could pass & enforce privacy regulations so they cannot function as spy devices. Or we could wheel out the guillotines so there are appropriate consequences for the creeps and sociopaths who choose to build and work at places like Facebook. Whichever, I'm flexible.

[DANmode]

> we've chosen to highly reward

No, investors have.

This is an important point.

Society did not choose freemium, it did not choose high fructose corn syrup. It was content with the products straight, the way they were.