<story><title>Even Google engineers are confused about Google’s privacy settings</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/26/21403202/google-engineers-privacy-settings-lawsuit-arizona-doubleclick</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Spooky23</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a usability aspect to this.&lt;p&gt;If you disable location services for Yelp, it&amp;#x27;s pretty unfriendly -- it chooses to make it as difficult as possible for you to use the app to get you to turn location back on. The Google approach for Maps is more pragmatic IMO -- lower resolution location data makes sure I don&amp;#x27;t get a McDonald&amp;#x27;s in Finland when I&amp;#x27;m in Kentucky.&lt;p&gt;The hard thing is that I don&amp;#x27;t want Yelp, Google, etc tracking my movements in a 10-meter radius forever, but I want location from a contextual perspective. I don&amp;#x27;t think you can do that without meaningful policy controls outside of your local computer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ocdtrekkie</author><text>Apple is fixing this in iOS 14. It allows you to give an app access to only approximate location.&lt;p&gt;Note that if your location history (precise every five minute location stored to your account) is off, Google won&amp;#x27;t even suggest a locally-stored list of previous locations you used with Maps. Which is an absolutist position that is usability-wise incredibly frustrating.</text></comment>
<story><title>Even Google engineers are confused about Google’s privacy settings</title><url>https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/26/21403202/google-engineers-privacy-settings-lawsuit-arizona-doubleclick</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Spooky23</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a usability aspect to this.&lt;p&gt;If you disable location services for Yelp, it&amp;#x27;s pretty unfriendly -- it chooses to make it as difficult as possible for you to use the app to get you to turn location back on. The Google approach for Maps is more pragmatic IMO -- lower resolution location data makes sure I don&amp;#x27;t get a McDonald&amp;#x27;s in Finland when I&amp;#x27;m in Kentucky.&lt;p&gt;The hard thing is that I don&amp;#x27;t want Yelp, Google, etc tracking my movements in a 10-meter radius forever, but I want location from a contextual perspective. I don&amp;#x27;t think you can do that without meaningful policy controls outside of your local computer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gruez</author><text>&amp;gt;The hard thing is that I don&amp;#x27;t want Yelp, Google, etc tracking my movements in a 10-meter radius forever, but I want location from a contextual perspective. I don&amp;#x27;t think you can do that without meaningful policy controls outside of your local computer.&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t this just a separate location permission for coarse location (which both OS), and allowing the user to choose between the two (not on either OS, but in iOS 14 beta)?</text></comment>