Comment on I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app.

• root@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If I turn it off after psiring, it’ll refuse to connect the next time.

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• cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  These are the kind of things that apps should be more clear about.

  The new Fujifilm app requires location access to even open the app, which you use to download images wirelessly. I know they want it always on to add GPS data to photos, but there’s no reason the app requires it to even launch! I should have the right to opt out of tracking because I don’t want to use Fuji’s weird social network feature.

  But Google Photos on iOS requires access to all your photos and their metadata to even open. But I don’t want to use Google Photos to store ALL my pictures, I just want to download my photos. Google and Facebook both stored the exif data to determine your location, and so I can’t use Google Photos at all on iOS.

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• sudoku@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Nearby devices” permission has been created for this very thing.

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