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Razengan on Feb 8, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple tells app developers to disclose or remove ...

I have no need to tell YouTube my location, but if I signed into YouTube, then install Google Maps and agree to its location sharing prompt, bam, now Google can link my viewing history (and more) with my precise location, because Google Maps automatically signed into my account as soon as I launched the app.

How is this not intrusive?

solarkraft on Feb 8, 2019 [–]

They don't need to share log-in data to be able to do this. There are plenty of other ways they can identify you.

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