Use Drip, Use Mensinator. There are alternatives. Open source and FOSS.
I talked my wife into switching, some google app to drip. She loves it! Helps so much at the doctor’s office and helps predict when to expect monthly pain.
digital cycle tracking technologies also come with serious risks, including wasted time and labour, unwanted surveillance, risks to health data privacy, and may distract from or even threaten efforts to advance women’s health
Those don’t seem like such serious risks… privacy, yes; but that’s an overall huge problem in current year. I would be more concerned about your TV recording every conversation you have about your reproductive organs than an app tracking one aspect of it.
Wasted time is not a serious risk or a harm; it is an opportunity cost.
I think the better point is that these criticisms could be applied to nearly any phone app.
These apps are all interconnected in that everything gets sold and eventually ends up in the Palantir databse entry for you.
They are all dangerous.
Yeah, this seems like a sort of position paper for a medical association. Here it’s less about serious harm and more about a general lack of benefits.
ITT: Big Tech is mad you’re not having babies, Big Pharmacy is mad you’re not taking pills
Paper calendar, pencil.
Alternative’s exist btw.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.abhilabs.lunavi
