and suddenly now when friends send a link for something for me to see on facebook it tells me i have to provide a clear photo of my face before i can access it ... wtf....
Unpopular opinion: we don't really know that much about ovulation. Popular wisdom is that women ovulate once a month. But it's hard to find actual studies on this. And one study done at a university in Canada suggests that women ovulate multiple times each month.
Ovia requires users input their state and country and also collects personal information like name, email address, and location. And they make it clear they sell your information. Less big brother, more grifting to monetize women's personal information. There is ZERO need for them to have any of it.
Reposted. Also be very hesitant at divulging any information about menstrual cycles to your doctor. Red states are in the courts getting laws changed to access your dr records. Go dark and figure out a safe way to calculate cycles on your own. Do not give that info!
Any app providing info about abortion clinics or Plan B to specific users going forward is going to ask which State they live in bc States like Texas have criminalized that.
If these apps had no benefit I'd agree with you. But they apparently do. Do you use Ovia?
I don’t use Ovia. Nor do I use 28, Peter Thiel’s period/ovulation tracker.
Why does a MAGA (and Yarvinist) gay billionaire like Peter Thiel need a period tracking app? The answer to that question is the same as the answer to “why shouldn’t people use period tracking apps?”
While I hope you’re right that prosecution for an abortion only remains a “problem” in red states, *persecution* for an abortion is a problem everywhere.
In this administration, your data can and will be used against you—legally or illegally.
perhaps some post menopausal women, who have no more fucks left to give, have joined these sites in order to screw up up the algorithms. Just saying. All non period people can join in the fun.
I am going to ask stupid questions: I don't really understand how these apps work or what they do. Isn't the concern that individuals will be targeted b/c states will be able to access the info and determine they were pregnant? If so, how would our participating change that?
Indeed.
Through all of this, I have personally heard not one word about men-how they’ll be monitored, found guilty, face severe consequences, even death.
The only way a female can become pregnant is by a male.
And some in GOP care not at all if that male made that guilty female pregnant by rape.
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It's been this way for a long time, unfortunately.
There's a story in The Bible about a woman "caught in the act".
They bring her before Jesus, he writes in the dirt ...eventually he gives an answer, and they walk away knowing that they were guilty. What I want to know is ... where was the dude?
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I’d rather corrupt their data.
Maybe I’ll use it to track monthly replacement of the water filter in my coffee pot!
Whaddya think?
If you live in a State that restricts reproductive rights or does not protect privacy, then delete.
If not, the app is fine. It needs to know what State you are in to provide its service without repercussion if you lived elsewhere.
For example, you can play online poker in Pennsylvania but not Ohio. Ohio could sue an app if they allowed Ohioans to gamble online.
This is bc of Texas. Not Ovia.
What kind of info do you think Texas wants to keep from ALL women?
And Texas would be able to sue for info about all users if not declared to be a non-Texan.
Any app providing info about abortion clinics or Plan B to specific users going forward is going to ask which State they live in bc States like Texas have criminalized that.
If these apps had no benefit I'd agree with you. But they apparently do. Do you use Ovia?
Why does a MAGA (and Yarvinist) gay billionaire like Peter Thiel need a period tracking app? The answer to that question is the same as the answer to “why shouldn’t people use period tracking apps?”
But no woman should be using Thiel's tracker. He has an agenda.
Ovia isn't trying to do what Texas and Thiel are doing.
Thiel's tracker is meant to supplant Ovia.
Ovia is pro-women and informs them with all reproductive options.
In this administration, your data can and will be used against you—legally or illegally.
Not worth it.
People use them for convenience but that convenience comes at a steeper and steeper price since Roe was overturned.
If I were a Texan I would not use them.
But even using a computer or smartphone in Texas presents the same issues.
To delete Ovia is allowing Texas to control women nationwide.
Pro-lifers want Ovia to cease to exist.
If you didn’t delete it when Roe was overturned, you should delete it now.
Ex: I’m Louise, 22, from Baton Rouge.
'Handmaiden's Tale'
Through all of this, I have personally heard not one word about men-how they’ll be monitored, found guilty, face severe consequences, even death.
The only way a female can become pregnant is by a male.
And some in GOP care not at all if that male made that guilty female pregnant by rape.
🇺🇸
There's a story in The Bible about a woman "caught in the act".
They bring her before Jesus, he writes in the dirt ...eventually he gives an answer, and they walk away knowing that they were guilty. What I want to know is ... where was the dude?