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Why do so many services request to know my location when it is irrelevant to the main usecase? Also, many time privacy settings screens are opt out instead of o
by yters 7y ago
Why do so many services request to know my location when it is irrelevant to the main usecase? Also, many time privacy settings screens are opt out instead of opt in. Why do companies need to know all this stuff about me, when it has nothing to do with their product that I use? Are they harvesting all this data to sell to third parties without my knowledge?
- fierarul 7y ago> Are they harvesting all this data to sell to third parties without my knowledge? Yes. It's a secondary revenue stream. Even if they don't sell it now, if it turns out they have a reasonable good dataset they can sell it later on, especially as the revenue starts dropping.