NFC payments app.
Same. It sucks that most banks wouldn’t jump on this train :(
I know it’s an unobtainable dream, but a banking app for every bank on any platform.
Banks could simply come together and develop an open banking standard for customers. Would probably save them a lot of money too, since the development of their stupid apps presumably costs them a lot.
Yeah, but think about all the data they can gather for their marketing team and the ads they can send over notifications.
Maybe thats not too dreaming in some countries… Brazil for example (use the translate that u prefer from pt-BR)
Software that burns down the server of any website that asks for data they don’t actually need.
health smartwatch app, with sleep n all features in some opensource format that could use any other app data… utopia, i know
GadgetBridge (Android). You need one of the (many) supported smartwatches. Data is easily exported and processable with, eg, R.
Apple health lets you export the whole shebang as XML if that helps at all
I’ve heard Garmin can also be used local only with the data exported?
How about this? https://gadgetbridge.org/
I’m able to use it with a Mi Band 7 and I haven’t lost any of the original functionality
I like the pinetime, although it definitely isn’t all that.
Not sure if this already exists in some form, but I want something that always records where I’ve been. I am a very forgetful person and the Google maps timeline feature has been very helpful more than a handful of times. Unfortunately, it means that Google knows exactly where I’ve been also…
I just want to be able to check where I was the afternoon of a random Tuesday three years ago!
Someone mentioned GPSLogger & Location Map Viewer here: https://lemmy.ca/comment/5402752
I haven’t tried them yet, but that could work. I’d also love an easy-to-use version of this, it’s just so useful.
When did I last go to the doctor? What was that restaurant we ate at that night?
so helpful
I use GPS Logger as well. Everything is saved locally in a kml file. The trick is to find an optimal settings which gives you enough data points but doesn’t kill your batteey in the process.
This is something I’m very interested in too.
A browser addon that utterly floods advertisers and trackers with dummy data. A single person using it is easy to single out. A thousand start to eat into the profits. 100k should make them go offline (DDoS’ed) with an interesting frequency.
There is one that clicks every ad it sees. Adnauseam.
Something like that, but that manages to click at least 50 times would be awesome
This would be amazing
Do services count? Because in that case, ride-hailing. A replacement for services like Uber and Lyft.
So true! In Germany we have Blablacar and Flixbus / Flixtrain, which have soo much better services to travel cheaply. But its proprietary “install our app” garbage
What’s wrong with taxi services?
From a client perspective Uber and Lyft don’t solve any issue that taxi services don’t. They may be more convenient/accessible by providing an app, but that’s not an unsolvable issue.
But from a privacy perspective taxis clearly have a leg up since you’re an anonymous customer.Off the top of my head, taxi services lack:
- Convenient hailing. A phone call works okay if you’re home, where there isn’t much noise and you speak the local language, but a web form is often much easier and less error-prone in other situations.
- Efficient coverage. Many areas either have sparse taxi coverage, or multiple taxi companies competing in an area, and if the one you call doesn’t have enough drivers available and nearby, you’re stuck waiting unreasonably long even if there are other ride options with better availability.
- Up-front journey-specific prices. We now have the technology to see what the total cost will be before we commit to a ride. We should be using it.
- A single point of hailing, where I can submit my location and destination, and be presented with my ride options from all the available providers.
- Accurate pick-up and drop-off time estimates. Even better with real-time taxi location.
- Quick arrival.
- Automated ride-sharing coordination among strangers.
- Fuel efficiency incentives. Most taxis I’ve taken have been heavy vehicles that guzzle petrol, passing the expense on to the environment and the customer.
I think most (maybe all) of this could be solved by something like a clearinghouse for taxi rides, effectively federating the various taxi services in an area, with a web app for requests.
Something that’s communtiy based and doesn’t fleece the drivers and riders so some asshole can have another yacht
I just want GoG but for movies
There are some apps on fdroid that aggregate shows and movies from several websites
Sorry I should have clarified.
I want to legally buy my movie paying it to the creators, and be able do do whatever I want with my copy with me knowing I bought it just for buying it and being allowed to Own it without it being a DVD, because I don’t want DVDs, because I live in 16m² and I move way to often, while keeping the concept of buying it
just torrent everything. it’s so damn convenient and easy nowadays. if they dont wanna give you an easy way to buy and keep their movies, fuck em.
Buy online and webrip? 🤔
But I wouldn’t buy anything anyway (and also, who is using DVDs these days? 🫥)
Some people have already advanced to me too but blue rays and scan them when proposing GoG but for minutes
Something that produces a wealth of plausible web traffic on my connection and browser that woefully misleads anyone monitoring it as to what I actually am browsing. Rather than hiding my traffic or ensuring some hyper level of encryption I simply want to use maybe an LLM or something to create such a close facimilie to “normal” online traffic that my online fingerprint becomes useless as sub 5% of my traffic is actually real.
Essentially I want privacy through drowning out everything with noise. It seems like the harder the to unwind in the end if done in a clever way. That plus some basic security protections and I will feel fairly secure.
That’s the premise behind AdNauseam, albeit only for ads and not general navigation: It clicks all the ads in the background, so the data won’t ever target the real you.
A version of WhatsApp that doesn’t require full access to all your contacts to work properly. I have about 10 people I need to Whatapp with - I just want to add those people. Meta doesn’t need to know my Doctor’s phone number.
Not sure if its useful to you but grapheneos has contact scopes that lets you choose which contacts an application has access to.
You can’t do that because its proprietary software. Also meta makes money from data so it makes sense they would want to analyze your contacts
I never said it was attainable.
Not sure if this counts, but a simple FOSS BIOS/UEFI option that could be installed on most desktops and laptops. The current options (Libreboot, coreboot) are very limited in compatible hardware.
Me getting ideas from this thread
please take them :)
I would like a browser addon that drops poisoned data when surfing the web. Instead of trying to restrict how much of my data gets collected, spread useless data across their sites.
Adnauseum does this. I think it simulates clicks to ads and corrupts your advertising profile.
As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile
I don’t get it though. The “listeners” could detect this and subtract 1 click from everything in the page. I guess that would only happen once ad nauseum gets popular.
Which one would they subtract?
Subtract all of them. That gives zero clicks except for the ones you manually clicked.
The trackers can’t tell which are manual clicks and which come from the plugin. That’s the idea. It obfuscates your tracking by random clicks you don’t see. It costs them data and makes tracking you worthless.
Maybe I misunderstood but it seems the plugin clicks all the buttons… every one… once.
So if the website notices that it can “unclick” everything exactly once.
Therefore only the manual clicks will survive because that button was clicked twice: once manually, and once automatically.
I think there is a setting to how often it clicks. From rare, 10%, to all, 100%. I understand what you’re saying about it now. I didn’t realise the option for all was there. I thought it was more random.
Android auto
There are some projects that already do this
an anonymous front-end for viewing Facebook pages á la Nitter or Invidious.
Yes please. Very frustrating encountering businesses and groups that only have a presence on facebook, no dedicated website or anything 😒
