Comment by madrox

4 years ago

I feel like there is a litany of the internet: "that which can be collected will be." That's been true since the beginning. What continues to surprise me is that people think only "bad guys" do it.

This is why we continue to lock down browsers and provide ever narrower permission classes.

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netheril96  4 years ago

What surprises me is that this is technically possible on iOS.

  • MBCook  4 years ago

    It’s an abuse of a feature, in a way. There are certainly non-evil use cases for the feature being used here.

    But as we know, that which can be used by advertising/tracking people will be used by them.

dinkledunk  4 years ago

That's because only "bad guys" do this. If a "good buy" does this, they automatically become a "bad guy".

  • headsoup  4 years ago

    I think madrox is referring to 'good guys' as in Western countries vs China etc, not literal good guys and bad guys. That's a fairly common view, regardless of all the actual bad Western country leaderships' conduct.