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"Warning: This app may track your GPS position" or similar. Not totally unexpected of a maps app.
by tuukkah 4y ago
"Warning: This app may track your GPS position" or similar. Not totally unexpected of a maps app.
- Aachen 4y agoImagine Google showed warnings for all the pre-installed Google apps on every phone. Warning: Google Background Services can read your SMSes, sideload apps without your knowledge or consent, request your location, and basically anything else your device is capable of doing (see the control panel in your Google account for what you, and Google, can make this do). Warning: on some devices, Google Maps will nag you to upload WiFi access points every time you open the app. It's opt-in so technically legal! Warning: every website you type in this browser's address bar will be sent to Google. Warning: text you type on this keyboard may be sent to Google for improving text suggestions for everyone. It would be a heck of a lot of pop ups on first boot and the best marketing Apple could ever wish for. Apple is not necessarily better, but they're not being hypocritical by adding warning labels for third party noncommercial open source alternatives (OsmAnd isn't the first one where Google does this, FairEmail has a similar story).