Software that burns down the server of any website that asks for data they don’t actually need.
Wallet app that I can tap using NFC so I don’t have to carry my wallet around and lose it again. I really miss Google Pay after switching to GrapheneOS
Yup! Monopoly alright. I’m lucky to have my bank’s app working like a payment entity on Android, without having to go through Google Pay.
It’s awful that so many banks used to have this and just decided to stop having it in favor of the monopoly.
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.
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.
no way bro that would be too simple and easy for the customer! nah best to just have tracker injected bloated apps infesting everyone’s phones.
Do services count? Because in that case, ride-hailing. A replacement for services like Uber and Lyft.
Something that’s communtiy based and doesn’t fleece the drivers and riders so some asshole can have another yacht
A messaging app/service that can work via both regular stable connections but also via non-online. Briar is kind of similar to what I am talking about. But it can’t/doesn’t go as far as I mean. It can send messages via cell data, WiFi, and Bluetooth but as far as I am aware, it can’t do a mix of them. And it would still require the person being messaged to be within range of my phone’s Bluetooth if not on cell/WiFi. So it doesn’t do the hopping I am really interested in (to my understanding).
So I am wanting to be able to have basically zero cell or WiFi signal on my phone, but be able to just have shit be able to bounce around via all methods to get to the person I am trying to reach. So like I could be in a no service spot for my carrier but maybe a friend that also has the app and does have a signal be used to bounce my message from Bluetooth to their cell or WiFi that is working. Then it either get to the final person from that bouncing, or maybe still get it if they are also in a no-signal area but still near another friend that does and is also in their Bluetooth range.
So the message would just hop whatever chain of devices and connections even if it takes a little more time (like if it just had to keep hopping from a number of phones completely through Bluetooth jumping. Would also be cool if it could jump even if the other devices didn’t have the app and was just encrypted text-only blobs hopping like how data hops around various servers when online. But aside from the fact that data costs money and would mean basically everyone’s shit would get used at all times. The nightmare of how the messages/service would know how to get places, or if maybe it already arrived via one method while a different chain was still trying would be massive. In addition to literally all the other things that would have to be figured out. And that is all before making sure it could be still private in any real way.
You wanted Firechat. It was closed-source, though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireChat
When I found out about this app, I was blown away about how cool the concept is. Sadly it was already dead, at that moment it made me wonder why other services weren’t build like that. I don’t think it will be easy to create a service like that and probably have too many downsides I’m not aware.
Privacy.com, but in other countries than the US
A local personal assistant that isn’t just focused on media consumption or purchasing. I want to ask about my most efficient route or ideal presents for my partner or a medical condition without it being data mined.
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.
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.
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.
NFC payments app.
Same. It sucks that most banks wouldn’t jump on this train :(
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 😒
Me getting ideas from this thread
please take them :)
Ever since Signal removed SMS capability I’ve really hoped to see SMS added to the FOSS fork Molly.
I just want GoG but for movies
Havent tried every app but If I had to think of some:
- an offline foss calendar that can import ics files (simple calendar is the only option soon fossify)
- an app that can display Checksums for files
- a dark privacy overlay for phones that can’t use privacy screen protectors, like newer gen pixels
Edit: Second an offline fitness tracker where a person can manually input info. Been using an ods file for a couple of years but its a pain to use collabora on android
