The overlay could be removed with an ad blocker, or they could switch to Desktop View, or they could switch to Old Reddit.
Even better, they could switch to the Threadiverse and not need to deal with a company progressively tightening the belt on user freedom for profit maximization.
Why not simply repost all the content to lemmy and slam the door on reddit
Reposting Reddit content in bulk to Lemmy (versus individual users reposting their own guides or informational posts) does nothing to organically build communities here, instead leaving a bunch of empty posts that make their communities look dead. It’s a chicken and egg problem, of course, but simply copying Reddit content wholesale isn’t the answer.
Edit: Just want to clarify that I’m not doing any downvotes here, and see the logic in that having the best of the best Reddit content here could help convince some people to look at otherwise dead communities. The problem is that relying on such content encourages Lemmy users to be consumers of content rather than producers in their own right, and therefore think that maximizing opportunities for Lemmy users to contribute in their own right is for the best.
There’s many bots doing that for some subs…
And there should be way more. Why people going back to reddit otherwise.
Just read the permissions of their app, & know why it’s untrustworthy.
- take picturs and videos
- record audio ( these may be a problem, if they can do it when you don’t know it’s happening )
- advertising ID permission
- ready sync settings
- run foreground service
- run at startup
- read user selected image and video files from shared storage ( this isn’t the problem: this is The Proper Way )
- read badge notifications
- view network connections
- prevent tablet from sleeping
- access to AdId API ( that’s ad id, not adLd )
- view Wi-Fi connections
- use fingerprint hardware
- show notifications
- receive data from internet
- install shortcuts
- read Google service configuration
- read audio files from shared storage ( these ARE the problem: they can upload ANY audio/video/image file they can find, up to them, & you’ve “agreed”, … so they could “legally” harvest personal-images/videos from all app-user’s phones, & you’d have no legal basis to sue them )
- read video files from shared storage
- read image files from shared storage
- control vibration
- Google Play billing service
- toggle sync on and off
- detect screen captures of app windows
- have full network access
- use biometric hardware
- Play Install Referrer API
- change your audio settings
- run foreground service with the type “dataSync”
TBH, I’m astonished they didn’t require Contacts permission, which apparently also grants the right to upload-to-them all one’s messages ( made me sick, when I found that out ).
DO NOT INSTALL UNTRUSTWORTHY APPS.
Apps should have ONLY the honestly-required permissions, NOT permissions which gaslight about valuing/protecting/serving the user.
No more ruled-by-machiavellian-clowns.
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Is there an app that scans all your apps for permissions that you dont want but may have overlooked or had been preinstalled?
I think some of those permissions can be granted and revoked on a granular basis (even file management, IIRC), but many of them cannot be. Advertising ID cannot be, for example. That connects directly to the Google Play Services app, and the only way to stop it is to either delete Play entirely, or pray that Google respects whatever setting you have to flip three screens deep.
