I had this set up the day it was available in my area. Never got an alert. I find it difficult to believe I wasn’t “exposed” during the pandemic, so I assume this didn’t really provide much value.
I ended up getting a few alerts, and each time I tested negative. Then later during Omicron, I ended up getting Covid and was contacted by a contact tracer for the city. I explained to them if they give me the code for the app, I can signal that I have Covid, and they said it wasn’t worth it.
Overall I think it was an interesting idea, and the approach was pretty clever while also maintaining privacy. Really the failure was from the municipalities being out of the loop. I’m not sure if there were studies done, but I do wonder how accurate the exposure determination was, since for me it was always false positives.
In Canada my girlfriend was exposed. She called the testing places to tell them, and to book a test. They told her no, and to go away.
When I realized the already small percentage of people that are trying to use this system were being denied, I disabled it. It’s actually useless.
I guess it depended on how many others did it. I’ve gotten a few of them here in the Netherlands, though in my case they never provided info that I didn’t already have. Nevertheless I did see the value of it, in some cases it could be very useful
I’m originally from Brazil but I’ve been living in Poland for the past decade so I had the Polish app setup with Android covid notifications. The neat thing is that it doesn’t matter as they all talk together due to how the protocol works.
I got a few notifications in Poland, and I also did travel to Brazil, and got notifications there too.
The app only works if enough people are in though, so if nobody uses then it won’t work. Depends on the area, people, way of thinking.
I got one to hit me 14 days after I was exposed. I had to self isolate for a full ten minutes.
I went to somewhat busy places later in the pandemic after the first vaccines were out. Nothing.
Nothing from the Colorado exposure app either. (It was probably tied to Google anyway.)
The gov version worked fine here in Australia, but not whatever that is, far as I know.
I’ve never gotten an alert and I know I’ve had “exposures” in the past from work emails. Guess it’s time to uninstall…
It was a nice idea.
Google has a hard-on when shoving something in its graveyard.
They really did genuinely work with Apple to create a system that could track contact while also not making it really possible to track individuals.
- Emhyr var Emreis ( @EmhyrVarEmreis@lemm.ee ) English15•11 months ago
Too bad for the three persons that used it, including the Google QA team
people really want immunosuppressed people to die huh?
It’s a long shot, but I hope that they keep the exposure notification framework and work with the CDC/appropriate orgs around the world to make it a generic exposure notification. The technical feature is impressive, and the usefulness (with proper adoption) would be high for the various occasions where other communicable diseases pop up. It seems easy enough to have a generic app to add the various diseases and their incubation/transmission windows to allow others to be notified.
But, because people are whiny fucks, it’ll die and we’ll be in a rush to reimplement it for the next thing that comes up.
Even if it did exist in an ideal state, people would still not use it, because people suck.
Well people would say you have a grim outlook but they can shove it, you’re right. But imagine google having an opportunity to cancel a product, they were walking around with raging hard-ons when somebody mentioned they get to cancel something
I never had this feature to begin with since I don’t use Google Play Services or Google in any capacity.
You use Arch, btw, right?
Closest i ever got was manjaro
Cool!
You are clearly a better person than all the Google-using riffraff.
That’ll teach them not gamifying functionalities they want us to use… 😅
Even just an exp/lvl counter for all the others you’ve seen would have worked,… 😅