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Re:Apple Maps on the web launches in beta by echelon on Thursday July 25, 2024 @01:34PM (#41071221)
Was the fix to use a paginated API?

Also, as an aside, do you have any political sway over this decision?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/06/g...

Location history is extremely valuable to remember trips and retrace steps. I don't want this living locally on a device where it can go missing.

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Re:Apple Maps on the web launches in beta by heyoni on Thursday July 25, 2024 @11:54PM (#41075653)
That change is hilarious. So many potentially goofy reasons for it happening but my best take is google deciding not to host any data it can’t mine or use. The privacy policy on location history was quite good and effectively granted users privacy.
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Re:Apple Maps on the web launches in beta by astrange on Saturday July 27, 2024 @03:58AM (#41085122)
Privacy policies don't help your users against subpoenas.
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Re:Apple Maps on the web launches in beta by heyoni on Saturday July 27, 2024 @04:57PM (#41089291)
If they cared about privacy they could have easily hosted the data encrypted with a key only known to the user rendering subpoenas useless for that service.
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Re:Apple Maps on the web launches in beta by astrange on Saturday July 27, 2024 @05:40PM (#41089525)
Or they could just not upload it. No one trusts E2EE systems; you can see Apple tries it and everyone just accuses them of putting secret backdoors in.
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