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A comment on iOS 13’s privacy pop-ups of Facebook data grabs. Parent comment

Re:iOS 13’s privacy pop-ups of Facebook data grabs by cdubzzz on Monday September 16, 2019 @12:33PM (#20985805)
It looks like this was released either in 8.x[0] or 9.x[1] series. Unclear to me which one. That means that only up to about 1/3 of Android devices[2] have the feature. Version distribution is one of the things that seems to tip stuff like this in favor in iOS[3].

Admittedly, the distribution of Android devices on 8.x+ is higher than I even expected before looking at this.

[0] https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/wifi...

[1] https://developer.android.com/about/versions/pie/android-9.0...

[2] https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards

[3] https://developer.apple.com/support/app-store/

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Re:iOS 13’s privacy pop-ups of Facebook data grabs by noisem4ker on Monday September 16, 2019 @02:08PM (#20986910)
Location access started being required for WiFi scans in Android 6.0 Marshmallow (2015).

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/marshmallow/and...

By eye, that covers nearly 75% of current devices.

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Re:iOS 13’s privacy pop-ups of Facebook data grabs by cdubzzz on Monday September 16, 2019 @02:39PM (#20987190)
Thank you. I figured I was probably missing something on that point.
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