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Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by xvector on Thursday May 02, 2019 @01:12PM (#19810074)
I just stopped using Android after shit like this. Privacy is an afterthought at best, despite the great new permissions model.

And it's absolutely not Android's fault as much it is app developers' faults. Want to use an app that tracks your dreams? Most devs will have you sign up for their terrible service so they can store the information in plaintext on a server.

At least with iOS most devs seem to opt for CloudKit with E2E encryption. Privacy seems more wired into the iOS ecosystem than Android.

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Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by Faark on Thursday May 02, 2019 @04:21PM (#19812409)
> And it's absolutely not Android's fault as much it is app developers' faults

I do see it as a shortcoming of android that i cannot redirect unwanted capabilities into a harmless sandbox version of those.

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Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by taneq on Thursday May 02, 2019 @09:39PM (#19814734)
Privacy Guard on LineageOS does exactly that. It's not Android, it's Google.
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Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by chefandy on Thursday May 02, 2019 @01:34PM (#19810343)
Not sure why this would be down-voted, unless people are really just that tribalistic about phone/tablet OS choice.
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Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by mehrdadn on Thursday May 02, 2019 @02:27PM (#19810968)
Didn't downvote, but Android has had dynamic permissions (since v6?) whose repeated notifications you can suppress, so I'm confused if the comment is still valid.
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Re:Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location a... by xvector on Thursday May 02, 2019 @06:56PM (#19813750)
Kind of misses the point - I do mention the robust permission system in Android.

The issue is that the developers themselves don't really seem to care as much about privacy etc as iOS developers. This effectively renders the privacy measures mostly meaningless. If I'm writing my dreams into your app and you can read them on your own server, I've already lost all semblance of privacy.

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