How Google ‘Tricks’ Users into Sharing Location Data

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by kavehs2 • 11 years ago

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wrongc0ntinent• 11 years ago

It's been a pet peeve of mine, until i started looking at it as just another nag screen.

cybernot• 11 years ago

Unfortunate to see Google abusing their users like this.

spacemanmatt• 11 years ago

Android OS updates enable it without asking, overruling previous disable settings. Even as an intentional location services user, this really frustrates me because it means my wifi-only tablet which sits at home all day every day starts polluting my location history every time I upgrade but forget to immediately disable location history for it.

_lce02• 11 years ago

DANGER: I've tried the waiting tip, and now I have it enabled to always share everything by default

Running Android 5.0.2

/rant nice played Google! I'm so pissed right now

EDIT: It's been a while, and I haven't been able to fix the situation. I'm thinking on wipe the whole system to revert this. This is really sad, technology should work for us, not against us.

_lce02• 11 years ago

that's it. I'm done with this crap.

I'm installing cyanogen right now!

SkeptinenSpede• 11 years ago

Google, please dont be evil!

How Google ‘Tricks’ Users into Sharing Location Data

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