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Deleting such an app seems like a reasonable solution. The iPhone has a built-in Weather app, why bother with another that is sharing location data?
The iPhone does. The iPad does not. Why Apple hasn't made an official weather app for the iPad yet, I have no clue.
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Dark Sky actually addressed this topic recently with some additional information. Good read. https://blog.darksky.net/location-privacy/
Just deleted AccuWeather. I am 100% convinced by the blog post -- but the DarkSky App is unfortunately not available outside USA. I really wish that the user could selectively switch on or off what permissions an app receives -- Instead of a blanket list of permissions at the install. For instance -- "lie to the App and give location obly within 100m".
If GPS location is: [47.49233343443, 19.05412443234]
Then it should offer to round it [47.5, 19.1] for some apps.
Uninstalling the horeshit is easy, trusting the replacement app is the next problem. Anyway, there is an easy fix. Both Android and IOS allows you to disable GPS permissions for specific apps. Just disable it and add your home town as favorite. 1. Weather reports aren't that local. 2. You rarely travel frequent enough that this becomes an inconvenience, and if you are traveling that frequent, you are more likely inte…
I recently started dating a chinese gal and she insists we communicate through wechat.
At this point, I must have at least 10 chat services on my phone, what's one more ?
Unfortunately, it asks for many permissions at the first startup and checks them everytime.
Also, it displays an annoying popup over the mic icon in order to make me give it that permission too ..
I have just stopped using that app. Unfortunately this kind of issue never gets a lot of attention and I feel like I sound like a tinfoil conspirationist when I explain that I don't want to give my location and contact list to random companies.
So advertisers pay more the further I travel? Do they factor in MPG and gas prices?
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Unless you are outside the US or UK or don't want to create a new iTunes account tied to those places (if you happen to have a valid card or an iTunes gift card for these countries)
https://darksky.net/
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Then you might as well stop using your smartphone and all 3rd party apps on it. ...Is probably the right answer. Unfortunately, if you want a phone that actually works these days, you're basically stuck with iOS or Android devices, and all the junk that implies. If I could buy a modern dumbphone that just works as a phone, with decent components so it has good reception and reliability, and ignore the whole smartphon…
I do cyagenomod(lineageos) with all the Google stripped out. A terminal, ssh, Firefox mobile, and a YouTube apk with ads stripped. This is why privacy respecting Foss and the four freedoms are important. Eventually people will wake up as the surveillance state becomes more abrasively obvious to even the lay-user.
Doesn't the YouTube app still rely on Google Play Services?
Anyway, if you still want to watch YouTube without Google, I'd recommend NewPipe on F-Droid. [0]
It's awesome. You can download videos to local storage for later watching, play music headless in the background, and there are no ads!
iOS and Android should offer location precision setting for each app. If GPS location is: [47.49233343443, 19.05412443234] Then it should offer to round it [47.5, 19.1] for some apps.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dark Sky actually addressed this topic recently with some additional information. Good read. https://blog.darksky.net/location-privacy/
Just deleted AccuWeather. I am 100% convinced by the blog post -- but the DarkSky App is unfortunately not available outside USA. I really wish that the user could selectively switch on or off what permissions an app receives -- Instead of a blanket list of permissions at the install. For instance -- "lie to the App and give location obly within 100m".
Uninstalling the horeshit is easy, trusting the replacement app is the next problem. Anyway, there is an easy fix. Both Android and IOS allows you to disable GPS permissions for specific apps. Just disable it and add your home town as favorite. 1. Weather reports aren't that local. 2. You rarely travel frequent enough that this becomes an inconvenience, and if you are traveling that frequent, you are more likely inte…