Besides being decentralized and anonymous, how will Aapps be better?

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Currently on my Android spyfest smart-track everything phone, while I was on disability for months, I downloaded app after app after app, and now have realized all of them are scams. And not just because I’m being tracked, but because everything is a come-on for some other app that’s being advertised, or utilizes gambling/dopamine addiction to trick people into coming back to the app, and/or is just annoying to use, in general.

Since I don’t really want anything to do with almost 100% of all apps anymore, what will make me want to use apps on the Autonomi network? (Or how would I even get on the Autonomi network on my spy-fest phone? Would I have to get a special phone?) Will the monetary ecosystem of Autonomi prevent app makers from being as greedy as they are on today’s phone environments? Maybe there will still be no reason for me to use apps. (Even if there are some useful apps, it still requires being on my phone, which then makes me think I should be doing yet more stuff on my phone, thus making me realize I shouldn’t even bother using the supposed useful apps because of the fact that I am still inside the landscape where there’s a bothersome app right next door. Unless I just have like 1-5 apps ever on my phone.)

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The user owns their data, not the app supplier.

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That is true but isn’t enough in itself because there will no doubt still be apps that “phone-home”.

People will still need a way to know when apps are doing that, or a way to prevent it and we don’t have the latter any more. I’m not sure it was ever possible, but we certainly don’t have it yet.

This is another reason for choosing apps which are open source. And for developers to choose copyleft licences (GPL, like Autonomi, AGPL like dweb) to prevent people from building on their work to create closed source apps which have the ‘freedom’ to hide what they do (as well as not give back).

Client side web apps (e.g. dweb) are also good because the code and network operations are exposed in the browser no matter what license was used developing it.

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I use an app called Tracker Control, that deals quite well with this. It works as network proxy, allowing to block unwanted servers by app.

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Yes, I’ve have tried that - a useful tool. It has its own issues at least on my cheap phone so I stopped using it quite quickly.