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Not saying some companies aren’t up to no-good. But, collecting timezone (or ip to infer timezone), as long as it’s done with user consent in the privacy policy
by zadokshi 3y ago
Not saying some companies aren’t up to no-good. But, collecting timezone (or ip to infer timezone), as long as it’s done with user consent in the privacy policy and or notifications setup process is actually helpful for end users. Most of us want (for example) our exercise reminder or our news update to arrive at breakfast even when we travel across Timezone boundaries. I don’t want to have to sign in to an app or go to a settings page for an app to tell it when I cross Timezone boundaries. If apps are collecting info to allow inferring Timezone without user consent then thats a different kettle of fish.
Not that I ever want linked in notifications, I definitely don’t want linked in notifications at 3am in the morning because I crossed a few international date lines.
- NotYourLawyer 3y agoNot clear why the app needs location info for this. Notifications should just be relative to the current local time.
- zadokshi 3y agoSpoken like someone who has never implemented a push notification system. How does a server know when to send a push notification to a client if the server doesn’t know the users local Timezone. Want a wake up call at 7am? How does the server know when to make the call? Want to avoid sending a study reminder at 3am, how does the server know when it is 3am? Most websites do some kind of location detection to show times back to the user that are likely in their current Timezone.
- NotYourLawyer 3y agoOops good point.
- latexr 3y ago> as long as it’s done with user consent in the privacy policy No one¹ reads those. I wouldn’t consider that informed consent. ¹ Not literally. I read them but personally know no one else who does.