new permissions for simple voice recorder app. they're coming!
As per title. Move to a new app peeps, I found this 1 seems fine.
https://github.com/you-apps/RecordYou?tab=readme-ov-file
Didn't "simple" recently get acquired and is no longer to be trusted? Correct if wrong but isn't Fossify the new preferred fork?
Yes.
Correct
for fucks sake
This is still pinned on r/SimpleMobileTools:
You could just use the version on F-Droid until Fossify releases their fork of it. But ya, wild how basically out of no where Simple Mobile sold out tough.
Don't use it, the dev sold out
"simple"
Looks like a pretty simple breach of privacy to me.
I wanted to check out if that is true... and it is. Then I clicked on Simple Calendar > Trackers...
"Simple", they said
Greed is simple.
Thank you for linking an alternative. I actually like it even more than the enshittified one.
The fukin audacity!
I wonder when the Fossify Voice Recorder will be dropped
So they're trading on the smt name to....do a bunch of things that are the antithesis of what was attractive about the brand to begin with?
Yep
Android damn well ought to let you lie.
This program wants my contacts? Okay, have fun spamming Blarvis Davies, e-mail TheBlarvDog@gofuckyours.elf. Camera? Random noise that looks like a lens cap. Microphone? Well make it real in this case, but if it's a photo app, quiet pink noise.
It's fine if the program doesn't work, work, with fake info. Obviously if I lie to an e-mail client then I'm either typing in addresses m'self or else I'm chatting up Blarvis. Maybe not even that, if I lie about internet access, and it looks like my connection just sucks.
But any program that tries to detect real versus fake info can be nuked off the face of the store.
If we're worried that your grandma will somehow enable those protections, but be unable to tell they're on, we can make the fake data even more obvious. After all - the program should never make any effort to detect this kind of chicanery. It can be blatant. FakeName@check-your-settings.grandma. A camera image of light grain applied over the words "you disabled camera permissions." Though the mic probably has to stay as a quiet hiss.
Would be neat to have sandbox profiles for this!
You need GOS for this, the function is called scopes combined with true separated user accounts. The shitty apps just get what I allow them.
Or you could just set the "mic" to blast some good ol' Rick Astley.
I don't want anything voice-controlled to misbehave. E.g. if the word "goodbye" makes it close out. These things are too stupid for context. You know the rules, and so do I.
(stock Android) I've yet to find any android call recording app that works on a device that doesn't have permission from Google to use the built in call recording features :/
~9mo ago they all got broken by an android update and haven't worked since.
Get your utility apps from fdroid. All open source and actually do what you want them to.
Is it more or less a replacement for Play Store?
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It's a fully open sourced app store for android. The code of all apps in the F-Droid repository are reviewed before being made available. So this is why the F-Droid version wont have these settings, as it'll be an older version.
Yes.
Any f droid recorder that is actively developed?
Simplest path is probably to use the old simple mobile tools recorder app on fdroid, which won't be getting any updates. Fossify will likely release their recorder app very shortly, which will essentially be the next update for the smt recorder app.
It is already under active development, they just haven't gotten the first release yet.
Edit:
Another interesting one is DroidRec. It is usually used and seen as a screen recorder, but it has three simple toggles for screen video, device audio, and microphone. If you turn off screen and device audio, it becomes a very nice voice recorder.
Is a good advice but for the 'Simple' apps doesn't make difference, all 'Simple' apps listed in the f-droid will not receive updates.