It’s by design
Complicated app settings are a threat to user privacy
Submitted 3 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://theconversation.com/complicated-app-settings-are-a-threat-to-user-privacy-235842
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ChlkDstTtr@lemmy.world 3 months ago
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Yes, even the author says so:
These apps intentionally come with complicated default privacy settings
gjoel@programming.dev 3 months ago
Unless the title says so, this is news to me.
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
It’s too bad the author didn’t spend any time on the information that smartphone apps are allowed to collect by default, with no in-app settings to restrict them at all.
I’m with him in sentiment, of course: Dark patterns are rotten wherever they’re used, including data protection settings. But a discussion of privacy focused on window curtains seems almost pointless when the doors are jammed wide open.
“The problem isn’t data protection; the problem is data collection.”
Oh well. I guess every little bit of attention on the issue might help it get fixed some day.