Microsoft Edge and Aloha caught sharing precise user location data with third parties
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/microsoft-edge-and-aloha-caught-sharing-precise-user-location-data-with-third-parties
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SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works · 89 pts · 64d
grue@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 64d
Weird omission of Firefox.
jumponboard@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 64d
That was OP, not the original post by rene
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca · 52 pts · 64d
Never ever trust anything from Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, X, TikTok for anything. Just don't use their software.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 64d
Agreed.
Sent from my pixel phone. š
myrmidex@belgae.social · 18 pts · 64d
GrapheneOS š
toofpic@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 64d
How to buy from Google and still think you're an anarchistš
myrmidex@belgae.social · 13 pts · 64d
Got it second hand mate, google earned nothing from me.
EDIT: I am aware of the cognitive dissonance needed to be an anarchist under capitalism. The hypocrisy is everywhere. Children died for the minerals needed in the devices we're typing these comments on.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 63d
anyone with a fairphone?
Hund@feddit.nu · 1 pts · 39d
Me! I have a Fairphone 6 with LineageOS (without any Google services).
dimjim@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 63d
Running Grapheneos right? Running Grapheneos right?
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 63d
I wish lol
kambusha@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 64d
This is a marketing post.
DarkerRadical@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 64d
It's so lucky Surfshark have the answers!
DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 64d
Right? Their āstudyā seems to have been reading the Google App Store and disclosures š
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 64d
Itās also completely wrong about the apps on iOS which have system level controls for approx and precise location.
DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 63d
āThe developer statesā¦ā honestly I barely trust apple anymore. I miss the days of human app reviews and a curated App Store. Gay Grandpa has sold us out, Jobs was an abusive narcissistic sociopath but I still miss him.
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 63d
It doesnāt matter if you trust the developer or not, thatās the whole point of the system-level controls for these things.
DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 63d
And you think you have that? Uber got around Appleās control and then bribed their way back inā¦ Appleās basically telling you theyāve abdicated responsibility at this point.
sompreno@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 64d
What really?
Jhogenbaum@leminal.space · 1 pts · 63d
On the Internet?! C'mon get real! Next youre gonna tell me that picture of the woman touching her laptop screen and keyboard simultaneously is faked.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 63d
That's like "catching" a bird flying.
IT'S WHAT THEY DO. They don't know anything else!
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 64d
On iOS Edge, and all other apps, have a precise location setting alongside the location settings, so is this only talking about Android?
You can choose to use approximate or precise location right in the settings:
If you have never selected it doesnāt even get your approximate location.
OriginalUsername7@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 64d
The article talks about safari as well, so this doesnāt seem to be solely an android problem.
From memory, Android has a similar location precision setting, but I switched to iOS 2 years ago so Iām a bit hazy on that.
Reading the article, it sounds like the issue is more about how your data is used if you give your browser access to your precise location. Even if that access is allowed, not all browsers are sharing it. Edge and Aloha seem to be the only two which say they share your precise location.
GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 63d
Itās just a poorly, or non-researched ad for a VPN basically.
If you give something location access, read what it uses it for. Pretty straight forward.