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Re:Apple’s New Ad Conversion Tracking Will Benefit User Privacy by macintux on Friday April 06, 2018 @04:12PM (#16776957)
You have control over your data: you can choose whether GasBuddy has access to your location always, never, or only during use.

This is one case where iOS widgets can impact your privacy: setting it to 'only during use' also qualifies the widget to refresh your location when it displays. It's not obvious to me whether any access of the widget screen is sufficient or whether you have to scroll past/to the GasBuddy widget to explicitly trigger that.

Anyway, Apple has been a loud advocate for privacy, and its CEO has strong personal reasons for valuing it.

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Re:Apple’s New Ad Conversion Tracking Will Benefit User Privacy by alexbeloi on Friday April 06, 2018 @07:28PM (#16778414)
>its CEO has strong personal reasons for valuing [privacy]

I don't know what this is referring to, could you please share?

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Re:Apple’s New Ad Conversion Tracking Will Benefit User Privacy by davymac on Friday April 06, 2018 @07:47PM (#16778501)
A gay man raised in Alabama.
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Re:Apple’s New Ad Conversion Tracking Will Benefit User Privacy by imron on Saturday April 07, 2018 @06:10AM (#16780135)
See: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/08/15...
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Re:Apple’s New Ad Conversion Tracking Will Benefit User Privacy by soperj on Friday April 06, 2018 @07:45PM (#16778491)
He's gay.
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