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Re:Alphabet’s CapitalG Leads $1B Round in Lyft by theDoug on Thursday October 19, 2017 @11:52AM (#15508953)
I found out about m.lyft.com and m.uber.com the other day. Both work pretty well, and I hope they save you as much space as they saved me! (Uber's app was 451MB on my phone)
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Re:Alphabet’s CapitalG Leads $1B Round in Lyft by beal on Thursday October 19, 2017 @12:06PM (#15509102)
Most of my ride sharing has been booked through their integration with google maps app
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Re:Alphabet’s CapitalG Leads $1B Round in Lyft by philsnow on Thursday October 19, 2017 @12:50PM (#15509481)
also, the uber app tracks your location while you're not using the app (they say they only do so for ~5 minutes after your drop off, but you have to trust them).

whereas you can deny the m.uber.com browser tab the ability to get your location from the browser (caveat: [0]), and you can close the tab when you're in the car.

[0] companies can still get rough location information from your mobile IP address [1], because of course that's a revenue stream for all the big mobile carriers.

[1] https://www.xda-developers.com/services-grab-location-info-d...

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Re:Alphabet’s CapitalG Leads $1B Round in Lyft by woolvalley on Thursday October 19, 2017 @01:10PM (#15509638)
You know that isnt true anymore with the 5m location thing
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Re:Alphabet’s CapitalG Leads $1B Round in Lyft by linkregister on Thursday October 19, 2017 @02:13PM (#15510206)
On iOS this has been changed to “when the app is open” for months.
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Re:Alphabet’s CapitalG Leads $1B Round in Lyft by philsnow on Thursday October 19, 2017 @06:45PM (#15512169)
If they were to change it back, would you have to re-authorize that permission? I really don't know.
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