My gym forced a social media down my throat. So I reverse-engineered its app

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A gym-goer reverse-engineered their gym’s app to extract the QR check-in feature using a rooted phone and the command-line tool ripgrep. This process highlights the challenges users face with mandatory social media integrations in fitness apps and the lengths some will go to regain control over their data.

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