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Period tracking apps are creating more harms than benefits: Apps pose risks to health as well as privacy and require greater scrutiny
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1436314/period-tracking-apps-are-creating-more-harms-than-benefits-apps-pose-risks-to-health-as
bmjgroup.com/digital-menstrual-tracking-risks-creating-more-harm-than-benefit-argue-experts/Replying to @beep@piefed.world
Who the fuck uses this shit and why? I can’t imagine adding another pointless microtask to my life so a bunch of people can mine my period info.
Replying to @ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
I do, because I have chronic health issues that require me to monitor these types of variables. I also use it to predict my next period so I can prepare and so I can be a bit kinder to myself. I use Drip though so everything stays on my phone and that bunch of people won’t mine shit.
Replying to @cartridgedream@lemmy.world
If it was me, I’d just open my calendar and schedule a “massage”. Maybe switch terms with “pedicure”.
Or do those apps have more features than just dates?