In Sovet Rush weather is watching you
On November 26, 2015, a blog post about the magic technology Meteum appeared on the Yandex blog. Now, you see, this is not just a weather forecast, but a very good, suitable forecast. Up to home, as they promise. This has most affected users of the mobile application, because one of the main variables in the Meteum formula is your coordinates, and what other thing will merge your location faster than a modern phone? But now you can at any time find out what the weather is around you without taking your eyes off the smartphone. It is very convenient if you prefer to walk the streets, having buried in the screen.
Simply put, now the weather is not an ordinary application. It can be much more than any similar. So let's look at an example version for Android, what else is the weather capable of!
First of all, install the application.
Google Play immediately scares us with the necessary permissions. How do you like the call data, huh? But in the yard of Android 7, for a long time you can manage application permissions! That's just Yandex is too cunning. In order not to ask the user for approval for peeping (which few will give, it's the weather), they use a compatibility trick. If you write in the manifest that the application is, say, for KitKat, the system will display everything you need automatically. And if you still try to take away permissions from the program, Android will threaten you with this window:
Cool, right? But it's time to dig deeper.
We will use a free program with a modest, unspoken name MyAndroidTools. For this we need root. But do not worry! Without root, there is also a way to see if an application is doing something without your knowledge. Via the developer's menu. But here is what exactly it does and under what circumstances, not to know.
To begin with, let's see what new services have spawned in our system after setting the weather.
Hmm. There is something to see. Well, for starters, authorization. You will not begin to talk about the weather to a stranger? Then comes the scary service called "geotracking", then something related to the lock screen. I suppose that the developers wanted to limit the activity of the application in the background so that the ubiquitous weather forecast would not wake your phone. Next comes the metric, advertising, nothing interesting. As they say, who uses Windows 10 is not afraid of telemetry. Do you think that's all? Nope.
As you can see, developers are not shy about calling a spade a spade, because an ordinary user will never recognize these names. Although, the accuracy of forecasts on the purpose of services based on their name is somewhere at the level of fortune telling.
The application wants to notify you without stopping, and the last two services are responsible for advertising. Everyone wants to eat. By the way, if you think that these services work only while using the application, then you are mistaken. Regardless of whether you started the weather or not, at least five services work in the background and all this economy eats up more than 50 megabytes of RAM.
Note that the process is not in the cache, where inactive applications are kept up until the system decides to use more memory. These processes always work from the moment the weather is set. Even if you did not run it at all. Of course, the owners of some redmi pro laptops with three gigs of RAM and six cores have nothing to worry about, but if you have gigabytes of RAM or less ...
And now, from fortune-telling on services, let's move on to more understandable receivers. We can find out what events the super weather reacts to.
There is such a sign: startup - on a fine day. Nothing criminal, widgets somehow need to be updated. So what if you did not put them? Just in case! The forecast should always be at hand.
What is the matter with mobile networks? They say that magnetic storms come from them.
As you understand, not a single weather forecast will be accurate if you do not know which applications are installed on the user, which ones he will install and which ones he will remove. Meteum takes everything into account!
In conclusion, I want to say that I am not an expert and do not insist on anything. But, as in that joke, I expressed my opinion, and you decide!
And yes, I now look at the weather in the browser. I hope Firefox does not sell me offal.
Simply put, now the weather is not an ordinary application. It can be much more than any similar. So let's look at an example version for Android, what else is the weather capable of!
First of all, install the application.
Google Play immediately scares us with the necessary permissions. How do you like the call data, huh? But in the yard of Android 7, for a long time you can manage application permissions! That's just Yandex is too cunning. In order not to ask the user for approval for peeping (which few will give, it's the weather), they use a compatibility trick. If you write in the manifest that the application is, say, for KitKat, the system will display everything you need automatically. And if you still try to take away permissions from the program, Android will threaten you with this window:
Cool, right? But it's time to dig deeper.
We will use a free program with a modest, unspoken name MyAndroidTools. For this we need root. But do not worry! Without root, there is also a way to see if an application is doing something without your knowledge. Via the developer's menu. But here is what exactly it does and under what circumstances, not to know.
To begin with, let's see what new services have spawned in our system after setting the weather.
Hmm. There is something to see. Well, for starters, authorization. You will not begin to talk about the weather to a stranger? Then comes the scary service called "geotracking", then something related to the lock screen. I suppose that the developers wanted to limit the activity of the application in the background so that the ubiquitous weather forecast would not wake your phone. Next comes the metric, advertising, nothing interesting. As they say, who uses Windows 10 is not afraid of telemetry. Do you think that's all? Nope.
As you can see, developers are not shy about calling a spade a spade, because an ordinary user will never recognize these names. Although, the accuracy of forecasts on the purpose of services based on their name is somewhere at the level of fortune telling.
The application wants to notify you without stopping, and the last two services are responsible for advertising. Everyone wants to eat. By the way, if you think that these services work only while using the application, then you are mistaken. Regardless of whether you started the weather or not, at least five services work in the background and all this economy eats up more than 50 megabytes of RAM.
Note that the process is not in the cache, where inactive applications are kept up until the system decides to use more memory. These processes always work from the moment the weather is set. Even if you did not run it at all. Of course, the owners of some redmi pro laptops with three gigs of RAM and six cores have nothing to worry about, but if you have gigabytes of RAM or less ...
And now, from fortune-telling on services, let's move on to more understandable receivers. We can find out what events the super weather reacts to.
There is such a sign: startup - on a fine day. Nothing criminal, widgets somehow need to be updated. So what if you did not put them? Just in case! The forecast should always be at hand.
What is the matter with mobile networks? They say that magnetic storms come from them.
As you understand, not a single weather forecast will be accurate if you do not know which applications are installed on the user, which ones he will install and which ones he will remove. Meteum takes everything into account!
In conclusion, I want to say that I am not an expert and do not insist on anything. But, as in that joke, I expressed my opinion, and you decide!
that joke
Jews choose a new rabbi. Abram rises:
- We all have long known Rabinovich as an honest person, I propose to choose him!
Jews (in unison):
- Yes, let's choose Rabinovich!
Yitzchak rises:
“So you want Rabinovich to choose the rabbi, and, by the way, he has a daughter - a prostitute!” Somehow it’s not good!
Jews (in unison):
- Not good!
Rabinovich stands up:
- Well, how so! You all know me from childhood! I have lived all my life in the community! And I have three sons and never had a daughter!
Jews (in unison):
- Indeed, how so ?!
Yitzhak (shrugging shoulders):
- I expressed my opinion, and you decide ...
- We all have long known Rabinovich as an honest person, I propose to choose him!
Jews (in unison):
- Yes, let's choose Rabinovich!
Yitzchak rises:
“So you want Rabinovich to choose the rabbi, and, by the way, he has a daughter - a prostitute!” Somehow it’s not good!
Jews (in unison):
- Not good!
Rabinovich stands up:
- Well, how so! You all know me from childhood! I have lived all my life in the community! And I have three sons and never had a daughter!
Jews (in unison):
- Indeed, how so ?!
Yitzhak (shrugging shoulders):
- I expressed my opinion, and you decide ...
And yes, I now look at the weather in the browser. I hope Firefox does not sell me offal.