Your Fitbit is useless – unless you consent to unlawful data sharing
Your Fitbit is useless – unless you consent to unlawful data sharing
noyb filed three complaints against Fitbit. The health and fitness company forces new app users to consent to data transfers
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If only a high quality, open source, repairable smart watch existed...
I've been looking to replace my fitbit with a Pine Watch or similar. I wasn't able to determine the Pine Watch's compatibility with generic android apps from their website.
(And while I'm quite comfortable hacking on my own devices, they were out of dev kits last I checked.)
If you use one, can you comment on how well it integrates with the Android ecosystem?
In particular, I'd like to be able check my glucose monitor's output from my watch. My CGM already provides a general android smart watch widget, but since the Pine Watch is kind of its own thing, I'm uncertain if it'd work.
If you can confirm or deny the functionality of general android widgets, that'd be super helpful for me.
If not, no worries. I'm just hunting for someone with hands-on experience to pose my questions to.
I switched to a PineTime watch from a FitBit about two months ago. I use a Pixel with GOS and no play services.
In my experience the PineTime is only good for heart rate monitoring and step counting, because so far that's all mine has been able to do. The PineTime is nice for what it does and as a watch, but if you want more health monitoring look elsewhere.
Thank you!
I have it. It definitely not a Fitbit drop in replacement. It's more of a notification center on your wrist. I use it for that, and it's awesome for that.
If it had an ECG function I would buy 10 of them
Garmin has a decent privacy policy for now
Look, I like PineTimes and have one myself, but calling it a smart watch when considering Fitbit is...really a stretch.
Load it up with aftermarket firmware until the total cost comes out to the price of a Fitbit and you'll be able to bounce off satellites and have an AI analyze your every wrist flourish to determine vital signs.
God, how I wish InfiniTime could do more stuff...
Thank you for the information, but please remember that there are ways to share that link without sounding like a condescending dick...
Yours comes off as more condescending than mine.
It's a joke "if only this existed!" and it does. I didn't call anyone names like you just did.
I did not find your initial phrasing bothersome in the least bit
Speak what you type out loud. If it sounds like you should be rolling your eyes as you say it... or if it sounds exceedingly sarcastic as you say it, chances are you're going to come off as condescending intended or not. You provided a good link, don't ruin it with unintentional attitude.