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Posted by amarcheschi 1 day ago

I decompiled the White House's new app(thereallo.dev)
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somebudyelse 23 hours ago|
The only permissions on the play store are notifications. On data privacy, it only shows optional email or phone number. Respectfully, I call BS.
Arainach 1 day ago||
"An official United States government app is injecting CSS and JavaScript into third-party websites to strip away their cookie consent dialogs, GDPR banners, login gates, and paywalls."

In their defense, this is the first thing the Trump admin has done that's unambiguously positive for ordinary people.

ronsor 1 day ago||
Yes, this is a major UX improvement considering I remove those with uBlock Origin anyway.
gitaarik 11 hours ago|||
Yeah it's great, we can actually let go of these silly open source projects like uBlock Origin, and just rely on the government for protecting us against the dangerous web!
subscribed 22 hours ago|||
Indeed.

I'd love it somehow taken out of it and made available for the general public. Custom uBlock / Adblock filers will be probably the easiest.

flexagoon 19 hours ago||
uBlock's built in filters handle it just fine, since it's very basic blocking based on html classes of the elements
shimman 21 hours ago||
I too love it when US imperialism invades digital spaces, just ignore how the US treats people critical of its own government (not just referring to the Trump admin here) then yeah sure great.

Let me know when this can ignore malware/adware from US companies then I'll give accolades.

pugchat 20 hours ago||
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nguyendinhdoan 6 hours ago||
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crimshawz 21 hours ago||
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enigmaTest 20 hours ago||
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OrangeMusic 19 hours ago|
"yappy yappy"? What?
razkaplan 20 hours ago||
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verteu 20 hours ago|
> Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated

longislandguido 1 day ago|
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rpdillon 23 hours ago||
Nah, I suspect any app that's loading arbitrary JS from somebody's random GitHub page would get called out for that behavior. We're getting supply chain attacks daily.
mattdeboard 22 hours ago|||
Are you upset people are being critical of a shabbily run government program?
longislandguido 22 hours ago||
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paulhebert 21 hours ago|||
Is this not a government program? Did someone in the cabinet choose to do this?

I’d prefer they not release shoddily build propaganda apps

goosejuice 21 hours ago||||
https://45press.com/ would be my guess.
mattdeboard 19 hours ago|||
Uh, yeah, dude, when Whitehouse.gov announces its new app, the app is a government program. Hope this helps but something tells me it won't.
tclancy 22 hours ago|||
That is some impressive willful ignorance. “If it was anybody else threatening to beat this guy up for what he was saying, you’d probably praise them. But a cop does it one time and …”
hvb2 20 hours ago||
This was probably payed for, with tax payer money, coming from an official government entity.

If any of those 3 is true, the bar should be higher than what someone just did in their free time? I would surely expect more.

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