AltStore – An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices

Re:AltStore – An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iO... by ac29 on Sunday June 20, 2021 @01:15PM (#27572003)

All those articles seem to say if you leave App Tracking on, and use Google Maps, yes, Google will save your location. Someone who is anti-Google shouldn't be leaving any tracking on, and shouldn't be using Google's Apps.

If you have any evidence that someone who uses Android without a Google account and doesnt use Google Apps is still getting tracked by Google, I'd be interested to see it.

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Re:AltStore – An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iO... by simfree on Sunday June 20, 2021 @03:46PM (#27573287)

Apple also tracks your GPS trace just like Google Maps does, the difference is they don't seem to share it with you.

Apple Maps employees use these "anonymized" GPS traces to correct roads, show business hours, find new points of interest that are unmapped, etc

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Re:AltStore – An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iO... by applefangirl on Sunday June 20, 2021 @06:56PM (#27574592)

They don’t share it with you because they can’t. It’s anonymized.

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Re:AltStore – An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iO... by simfree on Monday June 21, 2021 @07:28PM (#27585911)

The GPS trace is not practically anonymized, comparison with public and semipublic datasets would deanonymize a large portion of the GPS traces.

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