#Android App Scraping

[shadow-redferne]

by the way Congrats IbisPaint. Somehow, you managed to piss off BOTH SIDES of the AI debate. (elaboration in tags)

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[changes]

Friday, August 11th, 2023

🌟 New

We've implemented OpenAI’s instructions for blocking GPTBot. This should discourage OpenAI, including ChatGPT, from scraping any part of Tumblr, including individual blogs.

We’re rolling out a new redesign of the direct messaging conversation view.

🛠 Fixed

The latest version of the Android app (30.8) fixes the issue where links to “View Post” on filtered posts opens the web browser instead of taking you to the post in the app itself.

On web, we’ve improved the screen reader hint for tags on posts, so it doesn’t say “Pound” or “Number” when it encounters the hashtag symbol.

Fixed an issue on web that was preventing the Related Tags section of the sidebar from showing up on the search results page.

Fixed a bug in the mobile apps for group blogs which was preventing members from editing the Notifications settings for those group blogs.

We’ve been rolling through some bug fix releases and one major release for the StreamBuilder framework.

🚧 Ongoing

Nothing to report here today.

🌱 Upcoming

We’re cooking up our first public reveal on the @labs blog, give that blog a follow if you want to see what we’re working on!

Experiencing an issue? File a Support Request and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can!

Want to share your feedback about something? Check out our Work in Progress blog and start a discussion with the community.

[quiet-admirer]

People should really consider using Tumblr mobile web instead of the app. It means your Tumblr account isn't directly beholden to app store companies, ie Apple and Google, so it hasn't experienced the automatic user settings changes to suppress mature content that ios and android users have both now experienced.

You're also taking your business away from app stores by using mobile web, especially if you pay for a tumblr subscription via an app store (I mean, idk who does lol but just saying). You'd still be using a browser app of course but you can choose which browser fits your needs & privacy level preferences (including choosing not to use Chrome), and deleting the Tumblr app is one less app downloaded, one less app scraping your personal information. It obviously doesn't impact what content is labeled as mature, but it's a drop in the bucket as far as making your Tumblr account one extra step removed from app store control.

Mobile web is the neglected stepchild of Tumblr updates, too, and that's a great thing lmao. The updates we do get are the ones that are more solid quality-of-life improvements and better tested before they get released, in my experience anyway.

Mobile web usually doesn't get all the flashy new updates right away or frequent UI changes that the apps get (I hate that kind of stuff so it's a plus for me lol), I find the UI much more straightforward and simple from my brief flings with the app, and experiences less bugginess from what I read on the @/changes official account.

So, app store is making it more difficult to access adult content? Don't use the app!

[amalgamasreal]

Updated Personal Infosec Post

Been awhile since I've had one of these posts part deus: but I figure with all that's going on in the world it's time to make another one and get some stuff out there for people. A lot of the information I'm going to go over you can find here:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/

So if you'd like to just click the link and ignore the rest of the post that's fine, I strongly recommend checking out the Privacy Guides. Browsers: There's a number to go with but for this post going forward I'm going to recommend Firefox. I know that the Privacy Guides lists Brave and Safari as possible options but Brave is Chrome based now and Safari has ties to Apple. Mullvad is also an option but that's for your more experienced users so I'll leave that up to them to work out. Browser Extensions:

uBlock Origin: content blocker that blocks ads, trackers, and fingerprinting scripts. Notable for being the only ad blocker that still works on Youtube.

Privacy Badger: Content blocker that specifically blocks trackers and fingerprinting scripts. This one will catch things that uBlock doesn't catch but does not work for ads.

Facebook Container: "but I don't have facebook" you might say. Doesn't matter, Meta/Facebook still has trackers out there in EVERYTHING and this containerizes them off away from everything else.

Bitwarden: Password vaulting software, don't trust the password saving features of your browsers, this has multiple layers of security to prevent your passwords from being stolen.

ClearURLs: Allows you to copy and paste URL's without any trackers attached to them.

VPN: Note: VPN software doesn't make you anonymous, no matter what your favorite youtuber tells you, but it does make it harder for your data to be tracked and it makes it less open for whatever public network you're presently connected to.

Mozilla VPN: If you get the annual subscription it's ~$60/year and it comes with an extension that you can install into Firefox.

Mullvad VPN: Is a fast and inexpensive VPN with a serious focus on transparency and security. They have been in operation since 2009. Mullvad is based in Sweden and offers a 30-day money-back guarantee for payment methods that allow it.

Email Provider: Note: By now you've probably realized that Gmail, Outlook, and basically all of the major "free" e-mail service providers are scraping your e-mail data to use for ad data. There are more secure services that can get you away from that but if you'd like the same storage levels you have on Gmail/Ol utlook.com you'll need to pay.

Tuta: Secure, end-to-end encrypted, been around a very long time, and offers a free option up to 1gb.

Mailbox.org: Is an email service with a focus on being secure, ad-free, and privately powered by 100% eco-friendly energy. They have been in operation since 2014. Mailbox.org is based in Berlin, Germany. Accounts start with up to 2GB storage, which can be upgraded as needed.

Email Client:

Thunderbird: a free, open-source, cross-platform email, newsgroup, news feed, and chat (XMPP, IRC, Matrix) client developed by the Thunderbird community, and previously by the Mozilla Foundation.

FairMail (Android Only): minimal, open-source email app which uses open standards (IMAP, SMTP, OpenPGP), has several out of the box privacy features, and minimizes data and battery usage.

Cloud Storage:

Tresorit: Encrypted cloud storage owned by the national postal service of Switzerland. Received MULTIPLE awards for their security stats.

Peergos: decentralized and open-source, allows for you to set up your own cloud storage, but will require a certain level of expertise.

Microsoft Office Replacements:

LibreOffice: free and open-source, updates regularly, and has the majority of the same functions as base level Microsoft Office.

OnlyOffice: cloud-based, free

FreeOffice: Personal licenses are free, probably the closest to a fully office suite replacement.

Chat Clients: Note: As you've heard SMS and even WhatsApp and some other popular chat clients are basically open season right now. These are a couple of options to replace those. Note2: Signal has had some reports of security flaws, the service it was built on was originally built for the US Government, and it is based within the CONUS thus is susceptible to US subpoenas. Take that as you will.

Signal: Provides IM and calling securely and encrypted, has multiple layers of data hardening to prevent intrusion and exfil of data.

Molly (Android OS only): Alternative client to Signal. Routes communications through the TOR Network.

Briar: Encrypted IM client that connects to other clients through the TOR Network, can also chat via wifi or bluetooth.

SimpleX: Truly anonymous account creation, fully encrypted end to end, available for Android and iOS.

Now for the last bit, I know that the majority of people are on Windows or macOS, but if you can get on Linux I would strongly recommend it. pop_OS, Ubuntu, and Mint are super easy distros to use and install. They all have very easy to follow instructions on how to install them on your PC and if you'd like to just test them out all you need is a thumb drive to boot off of to run in demo mode. For more secure distributions for the more advanced users the options are: Whonix, Tails (Live USB only), and Qubes OS.

On a personal note I use Arch Linux, but I WOULD NOT recommend this be anyone's first distro as it requires at least a base level understanding of Linux and liberal use of the Arch Linux Wiki. If you game through Steam their Proton emulator in compatibility mode works wonders, I'm presently playing a major studio game that released in 2024 with no Linux support on it and once I got my drivers installed it's looked great. There are some learning curves to get around, but the benefit of the Linux community is that there's always people out there willing to help. I hope some of this information helps you and look out for yourself, it's starting to look scarier than normal out there.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Frank Wilhoit described conservativism as “exactly one proposition”:

There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.This is likewise the project of corporatism. Tech platforms are urgently committed to ensuring that they can do anything they want on their platforms — and they’re even more dedicated to the proposition that you must not do anything they don’t want on their platforms.

They can lock you in. You can’t unlock yourself. Facebook attained network-effects growth by giving its users bots that logged into Myspace on their behalf, scraped the contents of their inboxes for the messages from the friends they left behind, and plunked them in their Facebook inboxes.

Facebook then sued a company that did the same thing to Facebook, who wanted to make it as easy for Facebook users to leave Facebook as it had been to get started there.

Apple reverse-engineered Microsoft’s crown jewels — the Office file-formats that kept users locked to its operating systems — so it could clone them and let users change OSes.

Try to do that today — say, to make a runtime so you can use your iOS apps and media on an Android device or a non-Apple desktop — and Apple will reduce you to radioactive rubble.

- Let the Platforms Burn: The Opposite of Good Fires is Wildfires

[owlsie-hoot]

great time for content creators right now.

ao3 gets scraped and content is stolen to train AI. So you lock all your fics and immediately interaction almost stops completely.

tumblr app on android phones flags every single gif set of mine (and others) as mature content so people using the app cannot see it / have to click twice to see it. So interaction on tumblr drops to a new low as well.

what a shitty week.

[rewvyu]

Infinity Nikki 1.4 vs 1.5 Revenue Based On Sensor Tower reports

2025 May Revenue—April 30 to May 30 Infinity Nikki 1.5: CN¥ 72,193,486 | US$ 10,055,153.20

2025 April Revenue—March 31 to April 29 Infinity Nikki 1.4: CN¥64,143,573 | US$ 8,933,956.36

According to these reports, Infinity Nikki's revenue is up 12% month-over-month. However, compared to March, May’s revenue is down by 54%. On a positive note, May is the first month since the launch in December to show month-over-month revenue growth.

Disclaimer: Revenue figures presented here are estimates based on Sensor Tower data, which integrate: 1. Publicly scraped data from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. 2. Anonymised analytics via Sensor Tower’s proprietary panel of apps on both iOS and Android modelled through algorithms and machine learning. 3. Does not account for PC and PlayStation platforms revenue. These estimates are not official publisher numbers and may differ from actual values.

Data Cr: 赛博蛋挞9527 CN¥ to US$ Conversion is based on June 17, 8:00 am UTC Google Conversion Rate.

[actowiz-123]

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[lostaff]

Ch-ch-changes

🌟 Novità

Abbiamo implementato le istruzioni di OpenAI per bloccare GPTBot. Ciò dovrebbe scoraggiare OpenAI, incluso ChatGPT, dallo scraping di qualsiasi parte di Tumblr, inclusi i singoli blog.

Stiamo implementando una nuova modalità di visualizzazione della messaggistica diretta.

🛠 Correzioni

L'ultima versione dell'app per Android (30.8) risolve il problema per cui i collegamenti a "Visualizza post" sui post filtrati aprono il browser web invece di portarti al post nell'app stessa.

Sul web, abbiamo migliorato il suggerimento dello screen reader per i tag sui post, in modo che non dica "Pound" o "Numero" quando incontra il simbolo dell'hashtag.

Risolto un problema sul web che impediva la visualizzazione della sezione Tag correlati della barra laterale nella pagina dei risultati di ricerca.

Risolto un bug nelle app mobili per i blog di gruppo che impediva ai membri di modificare le impostazioni delle notifiche per quei blog di gruppo.

Abbiamo esaminato alcune versioni di correzione di bug e una versione principale per il framework StreamBuilder.

🚧 In corso

Niente da segnalare qui oggi.

🌱 In arrivo

Stiamo preparando la nostra prima rivelazione pubblica sul blog @labs, segui quel blog se vuoi vedere a cosa stiamo lavorando (solo in inglese)!

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[afniel]

Well, friends, I've done it again. At 93,190 words, I've broken Google Docs for Android again, and for the first time in this file, I've had the swipe-backspace fail and glitch the hell out.

Neat.

And yeah, I know, Google Docs bad, Google Docs scraping for AI training, Google Docs can delete your files, Google Docs evil. I'm aware. I'm also 90% writing on my phone because sitting at my desk is painful sometimes due to disability and I don't have a good cloud-storage-based replacement for it, especially one that's as universally supported by other apps/programs/sites and for free. This is just the hellscape we have.

(Also like, keep regular backups anyway, y'all, you should just be doing that anyway. They can't delete a downloaded hard copy away from you. I even download backups onto my phone because it's what I got.)

[chottopoco]

Syncing Scrivener 3 with Mega

Because Dropbox is dumb and being very glitchy lately, the sync function is no longer reliable. I spent a day trying to figure out why it wasn't syncing only to find out this is now an issue among Android and iOS users alike. Given the piddly space Dropbox gives as well as these ongoing issues, I decided to jump ship. If have Scrivener and are thinking of doing the same, here's a lil guide for you.

I opted to go with Mega. Their free account comes with 20 GB. Their website says 20, but if you download the mobile and desktop app, you get a 5 GB bonus for each. I suspect it might not be a permanent bonus, likely for a year, but I'll check again in the summer of 2025. They are also more privacy-oriented and have no AI scraping (like Google).

This walkthrough is for Android. I'd imagine the steps are similar for iOS, but I can't say for sure.

1. Make a Mega account, go through all that registration stuff.

2. Download the mobile app. Log in.

3. Download the desktop app. Log in

4. Open File Explorer and make a folder wherever you'd like your files to be synced from.

5. Once the desktop app is installed, you need to look for the icon to open the program. I found it in my task bar. The little red M icon is what you need to open.

6. Go to the three dots and double click to open up options.

7. Go to settings.

8. Go to the Sync option in the Settings menu. Select Add.

9. Another dialogue box will pop up. One the 'Local Folder' line, click 'Add'.

10. Select the folder you made specifically for sync. For this walkthrough, I'm using the 'Testing' folder.

11. Once you've selected your folder, you'll be back at the previous dialogue box. Now click on 'Select' on the MEGA folder line.

12. I forgot to take a screenshot, but you'll have a new dialogue box pop up with an empty list. Select the grey box saying 'New Folder'. You can name it whatever you want but I gave it the name 'Test'. Once done, your screen should look similar to the one below. Then click 'OK'.

13. When done, your dialogue box should look like below. This is the crucial step as this is how the Mega program will help you sync with Scrivener. Make sure these folders are exactly where you want them to be and are named as you want. Once you're certain, click 'Add'

14. When done, you'll have a list that looks similar to this. The first step is done.

[vole-mon-amour]

it seems that I started using docs back in 2016, stopped using word, and now I have way too many fics (and drafts) than I remember. i counted 150 before today, and now i found around 10-20 more? sure, i'll download it to my ssd, but in my eyes it's most likely to stay on google drive than on my ssd. (and i dislike having files i'm not using just sit there.)

plus, well, what do I do about commentaries? and when I write in docs, do I keep downloading the updated doc again and again?

back when i was searching for an alternative for docs, word didn't have a native black theme on their app for android, and it's CRUCIAL to me. not a single app aside from Docs has been able to meet my requirements so far. and I'm not even asking much:

- share it online with my beta/readers - have a native android app with a dark theme - have a decent amount of fonts to choose from (i use nunito when in docs). i tried that app for writers tumblr keeps giving me ads for (upd: it's called Ellipsus), but they have, like, 5 fonts & i disliked all of them. sorry, my brain is wired in a specific way, i can no longer write in Verdana, Arial, Sans and all of those basic ones. - the ability to easily add comments (Ellipsus has no ability to add comments) - no bugs - no ai scraping (but it seems like all of them are doing that shit these days.)

i hate it here.

[itsyourstarboy]

I hate Apple I hate it so much

I have an iPad that works perfectly fine and I use it solely for drawing and, sometimes, writing on Google docs

But this iPad is getting old, and Apple is like "f u Frankie we're gonna stop sending updates to your iPad" and I'm like "that's chill can I still use it though?" And they're like "yeah" and I'm like "cool cool why isn't my Google docs app opening" and they just look at me and laugh and kick me into the mud and frame me for murder

Then they say if I want Google docs I have to buy a new iPad, and I'm here bleeding from my mouth and begging on my knees, "pleas no Mr Apple my family can't even afford groceries we barely scrape by with food stamps" and they go "lol sucks to suck"

Anyway this is my way of saying my iPad is almost fully just a brick and I love having an android phone because I will never have to buy a new one unless I break it

[mercyjuliet1512]

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