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One thing that is clever about MoviePass, is that in order to use their membership, one must have location services activated at least for a brief instant every
by jnnnthnn 9y ago
One thing that is clever about MoviePass, is that in order to use their membership, one must have location services activated at least for a brief instant every time they are going to the movie. Indeed, you need to “check in” in the app when you’re within a 100 yard radius of the theater in order to be able to charge the ticket price to the MoviePass-provided payment card. Odds are, most people won’t want (or remember) to turn location services on and off every time they purchase a ticket.
- ChadMoran 9y agoiOS 11 introduced the ability to allow apps to only access your location while you're actively using the app. Using this method should be a good mitigation.
- theklr 9y agoUnfortunately apps don’t care. Waze lingers up to 40 minute after traveling in the background and that’s with supposed in app only mode.
- ChadMoran 9y agoUnless I'm mistaken they don't have access to your location while running in the background. Running != access to location.
- cityzen 9y agoFrom Apple: "When Location Services is active, a black or white arrow icon appears in the status bar." If Waze is using it for up to 40 minutes after traveling, you need to decide if you want to know where the cops are or if you want Google to know where you are.
- dothis9 9y agoThe colored location bar on top stays active too. I always force quit Waze at the end of the trip so that it (1) stops tracking me and (2) I don't waste my phone's battery life on tracking me
- fitzroy 9y agoMine is clearly set to only "While Using" on iOS 11. I don't see why it's surprising that MoviePass tracks your location when you open the app to look up movies or check in. Would that not be obvious?
- l9k 9y agoWith the Android app I was able to check in from more than a mile away (multiple times)
- sixothree 9y agoI find that I often check the movie times using the application from my house or my office. I'm sure it captures that brief window as well.