Re:Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch
by daodedickinson on Thursday January 18, 2018 @12:32PM
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Default on is outrageous. It's clear the average person doesn't know how to access and manage even some of these settings, much less understand what they do or be able to understand what privacy violations will continue despite turning something off in one place.
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You are explicitly asked about that feature when settinng up your phone for the first time.
Many non-technical types just have the store staffer walk through those steps, and others aren't likely to understand the implications of those settings.
Re:Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch
by brokenmachine on Thursday January 18, 2018 @10:15PM
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They can hardly complain to Google when the device doesn't behave as desired then.
They should complain to the store staffer or make some effort to find out what those settings the are enabled actually do.
Re:Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch
by jonathankoren on Thursday January 18, 2018 @12:39PM
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And that is why they default to on. If they defaulted to off, no one would turn it on, and they wouldn’t be able to hoover up the data.