Our app simplifies the process of scanning barcodes and searching for products that is listed for the boycott movement.
ben and jerrys, original owners tried to fight UNILEVER on thier ice cream being sold in israel? unilever ovverulled them.
After Unilever apparently guaranteed not to interfere in their political activism when buying the brand. I believe they’re currently in court about it
And both men are Jewish men who are supporters of Palestine.
Jewish antisemites I imagine they are being called by some of the baddies
Could it not just be a website? Trying to minimize the number of apps on my phone.
Right? Why does everything need to be a goddamn app
https://boycott-israel.org/ looks to have a search option, otherwise there is the BDS website https://bdsmovement.net/Act-Now-Against-These-Companies-Profiting-From-Genocide
iirc you just have to memorize a few numbers at the start of the barcode
This is the sort of app that really needs to be open source or at least open dataset. Right now there’s no way to see if their data is reliable. Aurora Store tells me that app has tracking in it (minor, but still, ewww), which is also concerning, so I’m not going to install it to find out if that information is at least provided in-app.
Oh also it’s developed by this super generic-looking company BashSquare. Overall not very confidence-inspiring.
I don’t know anything about BashSquare, but the developer is Ahmed Bashbash, a Palestinian software engineer from Gaza residing in Hungary.
Here’s the About page:
As far as what’s on the boycott list, it follows the official boycott list from my knowledge and gives an explanation on why a brand is boycotted
It works without camera access if you have no need to scan barcodes, it does need network to access the boycott list information. It doesn’t need notification or sensor access to work. At least on grapheneos
That’s quite compelling but I still can’t find any official confirmation of that information. The BashSquare website doesn’t mention any employees but does mention the app (and their website is on the G Play store). IMO the information you’ve provided is enough to confirm it uses some of the public boycott list, but could still be omitting things (though very unlikely; that would be a wild Israeli misinformation campaign).
The boycott website doesn’t provide barcode prefixes for companies to boycott, which means there is still some information that isn’t verifiable, and it’s one of the more crucial parts of the app’s functionality (if you’re not scanning barcodes you could just use the website). I did manage to find a way to look up barcode prefixes but there was no mention of a public API so it makes me think that either they’re part of the app (see qualms about open/verifiable dataset) or the app is using some proprietary API/scraper to get that info.
Thanks for the info!
It looks like he’s the founder of BashSquare from his profiles, I found his website. https://ahmedbashbash.github.io/ Looks like it has contact information, you could possibly ask clarifying questions if you wanted to.
I’m pretty certain it’s not some kind of Israeli honeypot or something like that. They’ve also done a few donation drives in the past.
The barcodes themselves provide the information for the business the product is from, at least most of them. There is also community input, where people can request a product be added if it is on the boycott list but they find the barcode not identifying it. They are also working on community additions to alternative products to boycotted ones, that should roll out in a future update
I know grapheneos does sandboxing which is really nice. You can also further isolate by setting up a new profile or using the private space, depending on what your threat level is. I just have it on my regular profile myself
does it contain information on the leadership of these companies
a lot of lemmy commenters support further action against chief executives and particularly genocide supporting chief executives
You can’t trust those “app has tracking in it” flags because they usually have scary wording for extremely basic and normal things that wouldn’t impact your privacy.
An app anonymously tracks if an user clicks a button or not. This becomes “ThIs APp pHOnEs HomE tRaCkiNg uSErS”
An app anonymously tracks if an user clicks a button or not. This becomes “ThIs APp pHOnEs HomE tRaCkiNg uSErS”
That is not normal and I absolutely object to it! Fuck anybody who wants to normalize that.
I’d be inclined to agree if it wasn’t broken down into more detail than what I actually shared. The app includes ads and one of the trackers is Google AdMob, so that’s definitely not anonymous tracking. It’s also impossible* to be sure whether the other two trackers, Google Crashlytics and Firebase Analytics, are anonymous.
*without reading the source code, at least
Edit to add the report that Aurora Store used
The ads are not present in the app unless you voluntarily watch one in the Support tab by clicking ‘Watch Ad’
Unfortunately that has no bearing on whether the tracking is active
Fuck Israel, genocidal scum!
Stop right there, genocidal scum!
You’ve violated international law! Subject yourself to the ICC and pay your fine!
[resist arrest]
“Then pay with your blood!”
What I do is have a ChatGPT conversation that I prompted so that when I tell it a brand name, it will answer with <Owning company> - <County of the company>
No need for more complications.
For my Canadian peeps, use Buy Beaver to boycott Israel AND US products.
Or whatever other shit-ass country you dont want to support.
I’d buy beaver
I’ve bought beaver.
The company I work for uses tons of tools from a company by the name “ISCAR” which I recently learned means “Israelian carbide”
Make sure you don’t have this app installed if passing through US Immigration.
Just turn your phone off ffs. And use a strong passphrase.
If they ask, just say no. Encryption works.
That’s how you get turned away at the border. Happened already.
Its highly unlikely, but worth the small risk. If they turn me away, that’s on them.
This is useful information. Thank you.
Sorry NGnius already posted this but interested if you folks like exodus. Its pretty sweet.
I’m new to this but my app store uses exodus to rate privacy of apps. It rates this app at 6/10. You all trust or use exodus? Wouldnt use this app anyway as I agree it should be open sourced. Especially using camera to scan items.
For iOS users https://apps.apple.com/us/app/no-thanks-app/id6476206516
I wouldn’t install it in the US, since boycotting Israel is apparently antisemitic. Especially not if you’re not a full fledged citizen.
I’m a citizen and I have it installed. Agree that visiting guests shouldn’t have it for safety.
Ah so cool, but is there an open source alternative?
It wasn’t on my bingo card that
Would make a come back but this time the Israel state doing the genocide.
I understand auch that many Israeli people are supporting it, but not all of them. It’s a fucked up situation.
At the same time, somehow the ‘don’t buy from the russian’ doesn’t seem to be very effective, so I can’t see this working either.
The BDS movement is based on the movement by the same name targeted at apartheid South Africa, which did have a significant impact in getting rid of the regime. That said the amount of money Americans are compelled legally to spend on Israel vastly outstrips any changes regular people could make in their daily lives so idk how effective it can be in this case. The American empire seems inextricably tied to Israeli dominance these days.
It is more of symbolic message than actual pain for the gencoiders like israel and Russia
If people actually stick to it, long term it would have economic impact IMHO
The Canadian movement to not buy from the USA is already showing some economic impact (though it’s hard to see through all of the other self-inflicted economic problems the USA has caused). It doesn’t even take that much time to have a real economic impact.
Sure Canadians can hurt a few American parasites but Canada doesn’t have the scale to make US hurt in any meaningful way though
So it falls into symbiotic message category imho
Depends on what you define as “meaningful”, but lots of things have already reached that threshold in my opinion. Travel into the US has dropped by up to 50% in some cases, which severely hurts their tourism industry, especially in northern parts of the USA. US politicians are talking about it, claiming outrageous things like “Canada has banned US goods”. Canadians stores are struggling to sell some USA products, being forced to put discounts on them and stopping or postponing the order of replacement stock.
Anyway, symbols are only worth something if they mean something.
Meaningful means it will impact US regime whores to actually change course.
So far nothing really worked on them.
So pressure needs to be escalated to the max
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