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Spotify asking family-plan users for gps data to prove they live at same address
- qwerty456127 8y agoIMHO no app that doesn't really need location data to perform the very function people install it for should ever be given access to this data. Same applies to Internet access and other app permissions.
- paxy 8y agoBecause screw families that don't live together
- nkkollaw 8y agoI often travel between Italy and Poland (I'm in Italy 1 week/month), and I keep running into problems of this kind. I assume for copyrights agreements, when I'm in Italy Netflix will fail to show movies I was in the middle of watching in Poland. I keep having AWS, Digital Ocean, and others think I'm a hacker despite the fact that I routinely confirm my account again while travelling between the same two countries, etc. Of course, in this case Spotify wants to stop people from saving money by sharing their account, but my point is that things like this often lead to bad experiences for legit users. If I was 18 in this case I would have organized a "Spotify confirmation" dinner at my house. A parent who pays for Spotify and is travelling might see his account limited.