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Re:Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your... by HappyTypist on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @08:52PM (#10748960)
As much as I respect not wanting to share location, the average user tends to be quite un-tech-savvy. Say that on average users without location services enabled makes 5x more wrong requests - that can result in hundreds of thousands of lost driver hours.
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Re:Netflix socks detect when you've dozed off and pause your... by rdancer on Thursday December 17, 2015 @10:09AM (#10751852)
Yes, and if that were a problem, we would not have Uber for iOS. There are whole classes of apps that cannot be made for iOS (it used to be the case of custom keyboards & ad blockers, for example). Because security in general, and privacy in particular, are non-negotiable on iOS.
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