Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds

Re:Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers an... by bad_user on Monday December 10, 2018 @10:25AM (#18648522)

Let's not talk past each other. An app can remember preferences and searches locally, without synchronizing them to a central server. Requiring that the server remembers those searches only if you agree to having your activity tracked is a dark pattern.

Which is what we are talking about.

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Re:Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers an... by zaroth on Monday December 10, 2018 @12:28PM (#18649492)

And this is very much still present in the latest version on my iPhone anyway. I still see a big prompt to turn on Web & App Activity I order to “Get the most from Maps” — which includes saving “Work” and “Home” favorites. Boo :-(

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Re:Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers an... by sa1 on Monday December 10, 2018 @02:53PM (#18650665)

You don't see that prompt if you aren't signed in.

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Re:Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers an... by zaroth on Monday December 10, 2018 @07:18PM (#18652321)

Son of a .... &%$!

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