I Decompiled the White House's New App
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The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.
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What Is This App?

It’s a React Native app built with Expo (SDK 54), running on the Hermes JavaScript engine. The backend is WordPress with a custom REST API. The app was built by an entity called “forty-five-press” according to the Expo config.

    • pentastarm@piefed.caEnglish
      23·
      2 days ago

      I run no script on both Firefox desktop and mobile. I’d much rather have to approve things to run, than have them run by default.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        12·
        1 day ago

        If one has it set to default-deny Javascript, a lot of websites don’t work, because many web developers don’t develop websites that work without Javascript today.

        Historically, websites did a better job of falling back.

    • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      2 days ago

      There’s dozens of us. Works great on mobile with NoScript, although the source code snippets don’t load. Since the article describes what they do anyway it’s still readable without them, and the excellent performance is worth leaving JS blocked.