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Re:How apps track your location without asking for permission by Someone1234 on Thursday June 04, 2015 @04:51PM (#9661960)
Ouch, that's certainly a step on the wrong direction. I guess they get points for consistency, but they're being consistently bad.
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Re:How apps track your location without asking for permission by mst on Thursday June 04, 2015 @09:17PM (#9663303)
If they've found that users almost always say yes to it, that might be the correct choice for being consistently usable even if you (and I) dislike that choice.
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Re:How apps track your location without asking for permission by JadeNB on Thursday June 04, 2015 @10:15PM (#9663491)
Enabled-by-default is a defensible choice (even if we don't like it), but it sounds like this is un-disableable, which I think is not defensible.
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