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Lytia
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- on Privacy Calorie Counter App (IOS) in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
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on Privacy Calorie Counter App (IOS) in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
Does the built in health app not support calorie tracking? It’s been a while since I’ve used iOS, but I believe you can also add data such as calorie intake with shortcuts for more automated logging.
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on Signal on two different grapheneos profiles. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Aug 2026
You punctuated your reply as a statement but phrased it as a question… but yes, it should just function as any other secondary device.
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on Signal on two different grapheneos profiles. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Aug 2026
Because you can’t run multiple accounts at once? Either I’m misunderstanding what you’re saying, or you’re missing the point of a signal backup.
OP is referring to the GrapheneOS feature, well really the android feature heavily enhanced by GrapheneOS, that allows you to run the OS as another user with their own apps and files. OP is asking for help running signal (Molly) in both profile A and profile B as one account. This is technically possible but realistically infeasible because of the way profile switching works on android. I explained why in a different comment.
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on Signal on two different grapheneos profiles. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Aug 2026
Bad advice. Signal has its drawbacks, and yet you managed to avoid listing all but one of them. Impressive.
Signal has released an update recently that allows multiple devices (up to 10 I believe). Yes you still need a phone number, but newer commits suggest that is soon to change. Signal has local backups on android, and I haven’t heard of any issues restoring from them. Signal is far from perfect, but they are very trusted, battle tested, and overall a better service than what most people are using anyways. By all means, if you have a better service that works for you, go for it, but advising against using signal outright with no alternative is kinda weird.
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on Signal on two different grapheneos profiles. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Aug 2026
I just tried with the official signal client, and I don’t think there’s a way to do it without transferring the account to another device. The second app must remain open while the first app scans the code, so while it’s possible in a private space, I think profiles are too isolated to run both at once. I’d be happy to be proven otherwise, but from what I can tell, it’s not possible on one device alone. I’d imagine Molly is the same.
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on Signal on two different grapheneos profiles. in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Aug 2026
If you have two seperate profiles on GrapheneOS, any apps inside the profile would generally assume it’s running on a completely seperate device. If the app was malicious it could technically tell that it’s installed on the same phone, but Signal is not. Using Signal across two profiles would be effectively the same as using Signal across two different phones.
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on best google like ecosystem? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 8 Aug 2026
I’ll start this by saying I do like and use proton, but their insistence to provide a hundred different services (and force you to pay for every single one in your subscription) really hurts the service. For example:
The 2FA had an issue that leaked every single service you used by connecting to their icon server over insecure http, for a month I believe and then downplaying the severity. This wouldn’t have happened if they focused on being an email provider and pointed users to existing services like Ente Auth, instead of pushing poorly tested software to production as fast as possible. You should never store 2FA with your password manager anyways, even if it’s stored in seperate apps, so I think their choice to make a 2FA app is quite silly.
They continue to prioritize building new services such as meet and lumo over compatibility with Linux (drive sucks, and only 9 years later do they support a buggy CLI. The VPN client is buggy as hell, and if you’re not careful could leak your VPN when it crashes for the hundredth time (crashes are less common on Gnome, which is technically the only DE it’s built for, but that doesn’t change the fact that it lacks critical features that exist exclusively on MacOS and Windows) (the killswitch works as far as I can tell, but with how poorly made the client is, you should bind it in the OS itself as well)).
They require the use of Google Play services, arguing that they don’t want to waste people’s battery by running websocket based notifications. It’s a stupid defense as people who don’t have Google play services wouldn’t mind the extra battery usage for notifications. Not to mention, they can use unified push since they already encrypt their notifications anyways (Proton says they don’t need to add unified push, the users just need to use Google Play because the notification are encrypted, completely disregarding the invasiveness of Google Play and the metadata leakage from using them for push notifs).
The UI for simplelogin has not changed since acquisition from what I can tell, and continues to look like it’s from 2014. Rather than adding features to simplelogin, as you would when you purchase an entire company, they almost exclusively add features to their password manager and email client instead.
They basically force their crappy photo storage down your throat on mobile, despite being offered to join an alliance with privacy services (including Ente, an amazing photo storage service) and rejecting the offer. That’s actually a whole issue on its own. For what reason, other than greed, would a privacy company choose not to join an alliance with very respected privacy services? Is it because Tuta joined? That would be dumb and petty.
Overall, I like and use many proton services, and I think a lot of the political controversies people like to throw at proton are FUD and/or blown out of proportion. That said, if a company could do what proton does for email (tuta is nowhere close to proton imo) and exclusively does email (fun fact, tuta is exploring the cloud drive space, because I guess people never learn) I would switch in a heartbeat. If proton separated their plans so you only pay for what you need, and let me use notifications on my phone, that would be basically all my gripes in my day to day dealt with.
I don’t use iOS anymore, so I can’t really be more helpful with my suggestions, but apple health hasn’t had problems with sharing user’s health data (afaik), and as far as Apple’s privacy goes (not all that far tbh) they put an effort into keeping your health data private.
If you still prefer to use a different app, fair enough and more power to you, just thought I’d let you know. Make sure to disable Siri (or I suppose apple intelligence now) learning from whatever app you decide to use though.