Call me crazy, but I don’t think an official government app should be loading executable code from a random person’s GitHub account. Or tracking your GPS location in the background. Or silently stripping privacy consent dialogs from every website you visit through its built-in browser. And yet here we are.
The White House released a new app last week for iOS and Android, promising “unparalleled access to the Trump Administration.” A security researcher, who goes by Thereallo, pulled the APKs and decompiled them — extracting the actual compiled code and examining what’s really going on under the hood. The propaganda stuff — cherry-picked news, a one-tap button to report your neighbors to ICE, a text that auto-populates “Greatest President Ever!” — which Engadget covered, is embarrassing enough. The code underneath is something else entirely.
Let’s start with the most alarming behavior. Every time you open a link in the app’s built-in browser, the app silently injects JavaScript and CSS into the page. Here’s what it does:
It hides: Cookie banners GDPR consent dialogs OneTrust popups Privacy banners Login walls Signup walls Upsell prompts Paywall elements CMP (Consent Management Platform) boxes
It forces body { overflow: auto !important } to re-enable scrolling on pages where consent dialogs lock the scroll. Then it sets up a MutationObserver to continuously nuke any consent elements that get dynamically added.
An official United States government app is injecting CSS and JavaScript into third-party websites to strip away their cookie consent dialogs, GDPR banners, login gates, and paywalls.
Liberals are kinda dome too. Remember the USA is commiting a genocide under both parties leadership. We have no options but imperialism with a smile or a frown but always the root is wearing a crown. Hidden leaders or leaders frothing at the mouth. We still live in feudal ages, this I have no doubt. Welcome to the lords and ladies of the clown kingdome. We are a lost people and the mechanisms that we think we have are just a hamster wheel. We have to be radical and do something different to ever see change. All past moments were pacification to quell the peasants rage… they take their time high on the hog and move on to the next stage. Left foot right foot the empire marches on.
This is so poorly formatted, it’s difficult to know where to start. As a liberal, I’m apparently “kinda dome.” I in no way resemble half a sphere.
The Kingdome was a sports arena in Seattle that was demolished while I was in college there … the hed was “Kingdome fall down, go boom” as the strip story. I was not yet in any position of power and winced at this absurd hed.
If you want to get involved in leftist circles, this is not the way to do it. Speaking in absolutes and cliche sounds more like an LLM than activism, except ChatGPT would have done a better job.
Also, apostrophes are a thing. Check out Wikipedia if you don’t believe me.
Liberals are not the left. Liberalism is a right wing position. Protesting is for goverments that listen. The USA is a brutal imperialist empire in decline hidden in plain sight. Well maybe not anymore… welll unfortunately maybe still or there is just so much indifference. We are commiting a genocide via both parties. A holocaust. Sorry to disappoint you, good luck with those strongly worded letters. I don’t need your syntax. We have the death penalty and like the worlds highest prision population. Oh excuse me the 3rd according to a random website so I guess thats a good thing. So its the guns huh? I mean they don’t really help. Why are the kids in this country so disurbed? The Right wing gets whats promised but the “Left” is pacified by optics and nice words entering into the Ratchet effect. Liberal and conservative, hard positions on same level of irrelevance. pfffft liberalism…You wouldn’t need regulation if billionares could get the death penalty for commiting crimes…or is that regulation? I know nothing I guess. I mean that type of ambition wouldn’t exist. I mean how could you believe in such nonsense. Did you ever just once step outside of the box? You went to college… What did you learn? The ultra right, (not you the normie right liberals) is going to Co-op liberals anti-war stance… wait a second your party is pro war. Oh wait maybe they are not… they always talking out of both sides of their mouth. Like a zipper they have you all figured out. They know how to push your buttons and move you two groups like a herd. I personaly think If you experianced others pain, had more experiances or spent less time fitting in you might not see yourself as a liberal. There might not be a process even for you to express those ideas except to expose youself on the interweb or the streets away from those that make decisions for you with a heaping pile of goons that would fire projectiles at you… It is always about managing perception and don’t get me started about Ukraine. Both wars are connected and it is just the capitalist thieving. Order out of chaos. They always win even if they lose. Now put this in your pocket and look at it later.
The arts of the sophists were known as sophistry and gained a negative reputation as arbitrary, inauthentic, or deceptive styles of reasoning, beginning with the notable philosophers of Classical Athens who criticized sophists for valuing artistic speech or cleverness in debate over a genuine pursuit of truth and knowledge.[4] Thus, in modern usage, sophism, sophist, and sophistry are used disparagingly. Sophistry, or a sophism, is a fallacious argument, especially one used deliberately to deceive.[5][6] Today, a sophist is a person who reasons with clever but deceptive or intellectually dishonest arguments.[7][8]
Hitler’s American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States + The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World + The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government + The Kidnap Years: The Astonishing True History of the Forgotten Kidnapping Epidemic That Shook Depression-Era America + Panama Papers + Jeff Files Smedley Butler + A People’s History of the United States + The Truth is Out There + Flood the Zone + on to the next crisis.