Spotify wrapped started this trend seems other apps are following through. Seeing a summary of things you did with there app. Kind of gives you a hint how much other things are being tracked.
data retention
It’s the opposite - most regulatory frameworks require that you only retain data if you have a “legitimate purpose” for holding on to it; providing app features absolutely is a legitimate purpose, so by having a “wrapped” you can justify holding on to everything a user does - after all, you need it to provide features.
That’s interesting never thought of that.
Isn’t that just basic data they already kept track of?
Not really sure what you mean basic but if tracking someone’s clicks on certain button, or features and can be traced back to you. It’s actually kind off putting so much for making your information anonymise which most companies claim.
My to do list app had a wrapped and I was deeply displeased to see it.
What do you mean by that?
It’s not my job to educate you
Hahahaha
perfect 👌
The whole ‘wrapped’ summaries thing dovetails perfectly into social media narcissism. It’s quite a spectacle to witness.
Edit: the phrase I was looking for came to me:
Sharing ‘wrapped’ anything is solid gold self-absorbed dipshittery.
I enjoy it for retro achievements because it said I spent 60 hours playing Dragon.Quest 8 for the PS2. But that’s probably because it’s all free.
And oddly enough it was the only wrapped I got as I don’t do subscription based stuff.
The only app I have that does such a thing does it because it’s deliberately gamified to help you build a good habit and tracking/summarizing your achievements for that year. IMO any other kind of app doing that is a gigantic red flag and you ought to delete it and find a replacement in the F-Droid repository (which consists entirely of Free Software that is much less likely to contain those sorts of dark patterns and other antifeatures) instead.
Which apps do that? None of mind have suggested anything.
