[mishellaneous]

> It just is? I used to get notifications that said something like “$partner is likely to be irritable for the next 2 days”, so I could be extra careful not to piss her off.

to be clear, you think getting a notification about an incoming period is more convenient than being directly told about it? even considering you'll probably already be speaking to this person during this period (otherwise the notification is pointless)?

that barely makes sense even in the strict interpretation where it means that it takes less key presses to enter your period information on an app than typing "i'm on my period" every month (though i doubt you can beat typing "pms").

> No way you can get someone to tell you that unprompted.

and you can get people to, connect/sync with you or whatever, on yet another app, made strictly for this purpose, unprompted?

> Now, of course I would prefer if that data was end-to-end encrypted.

but the important question is the intensity of this preferrence. clearly, it's not as strong as your preferrence for... one key press less per month?

how is that saying? if one key press less per month is all it takes for you to give up private information, then i have a bridge to sell to you.

[drdexebtjl]

I don’t appreciate the holier than thou attitude. These apps and these features are very useful to millions of users. Yes, we’re even paying for it. No, texting “i have pms” every month does not replace it. You’re just out of touch. It’s not for you, and that’s fine.

As the article stated, there are apps that don’t share this data with advertisers, and operate on jurisdictions with strong privacy laws.

We don’t live in a state where we would have no recourse against such privacy violations, and we don’t live in a state where women’s reproductive rights are being threatened by the government.

So we’re using the app.

If your bridge is useful, maybe we’ll buy it.