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Terr_ • yesterday at 8:46 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I regret that we've moved away from a world where you could easily tell your device throw a privacy-preserving bone to pesky apps. ("Sure, you've got location access, but it'll only show my house, you don't get to see where else I go.")

Instead our ownership and agency has been sacrificed on the altar of "but BigCo doesn't like it because users can lie."


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fancyfredbot • yesterday at 9:29 PM

You kind of can, but it means rooting the phone after which you can't run banking apps etc.

Personally I am okay with my bank app doing this but I'm probably in a minority here.