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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by vxxzy on Monday August 27, 2018 @04:58PM (#17854491)
You can collect more data with an app.
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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by scarface74 on Monday August 27, 2018 @10:13PM (#17856151)
What useful data can you collect with the app that you can’t from visiting a website?
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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by masonic on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @03:48AM (#17857197)
The Reddit app happily sucks all kinds of content from your phone. It demands access to your location, storage, and full network access, unsupervised.
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Re:What Being on the Front Page of Hacker News Does to Your ... by scarface74 on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @05:28AM (#17857550)
It won’t work on Android if you deny permission for location and storage? There is an explicit per app setting on iOS that can stop most apps from running in the background.

This is partially why Android users have to be as careful about downloading apps as Windows users.

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