iOS 11 Location Privacy: "Only While Using" is now always an option for users

Re:iOS 11 Location Privacy: "Only While Using" is now always... by coldpie on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @10:41AM (#14506810)

I've been an Android user since my first smartphone, but Apple's privacy and human-hand-sized phones really had me considering an iPhone for my next purchase. I ended up with a Pixel anyway, since I can't use iTunes and I like having a filesystem and using Firefox, but it was a near thing.

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Re:iOS 11 Location Privacy: "Only While Using" is now always... by mixmastamyk on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @11:47AM (#14507349)

Haven't used iTunes in a decade, there is a new files app (thank god), and Firefox and focus have been available for years.

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Re:iOS 11 Location Privacy: "Only While Using" is now always... by coldpie on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @12:01PM (#14507454)

I thought 3rd party browsers have to use the system HTML renderer, which means Firefox can't support extensions like uBlock, Toggle Animated Gifs, etc.

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Re:iOS 11 Location Privacy: "Only While Using" is now always... by Asmod4n on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @12:29PM (#14507717)

Safari on iOS allows extensions for ad blocking. Mozilla made one too afaik, or the EFF.

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Re:iOS 11 Location Privacy: "Only While Using" is now always... by derefr on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @04:48PM (#14509736)

> human-hand-sized phones

My Chinese girlfriend disputes this. Even the iPhone SE is a bit big for her, and it's just there to consume left-over parts rather than to be a living branch of their design space. No touch-screen phone maker is really serving the Asian market at this point, as far as "idiomatic" one-handed usage goes; they're seemingly expecting everyone with small hands to just treat their phones like phablets, juggling them around in both hands every time they want to tap anything.

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