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I was recently given a webcam by a friend to use while I was away on vacation. The app wouldn't let me set it up until it had correctly identified my physical l

I was recently given a webcam by a friend to use while I was away on vacation. The app wouldn't let me set it up until it had correctly identified my physical location. On top of that there was some glitch that prevented the app from doing it and it kept defeating itself. Backed right out of that one. It's incredible how people would just agree to anything an app asks them to do. If most people didn't proceed past this point, the manufacturer wouldn't be getting away with collecting that data. How is someone's physical location data required to setup a webcam? So anyway. Same crap.

NoPicklez 7y ago
It’s not necessarily the same crap, I agree with the webcam but when using devices that operate over radio frequencies you do need to know where they live (loosely) in order to correctly configure the device to their locale.
- panpanna 7y ago
  This was a really really bad excuse. There are many better ways to do this, for example why not ask users which country they are on? Or, I don't know, maybe let the app figure it out based on the phones configuration?