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I Decompiled the White House's New App— The app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages. (blog.thereallo.dev)
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It's a React Native app built with Expo (SDK 54), running on the Hermes JavaScript engine. The backend is WordPress with a custom REST API. The app was built by an entity called "forty-five-press" according to the Expo config.

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[–] 12 points 4 months ago*

If one has it set to default-deny Javascript, a lot of websites don't work, because many web developers don't develop websites that work without Javascript today.

Historically, websites did a better job of falling back.

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