In theory, devs need to know what setting you chose so that, if you legitimately need presicse location, you can tell the user to enable it. In practice I’m sure plenty of apps that claim they need precise location don’t really need it, but it’s not a restricted permission either so Google doesn’t do any validation during their review process
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Some apps play nice, but most app that need location(like maps) would need exact location for their purpose.
Precision location leaks data about surrounding wifi networks to google. You can disable it, because a lot of people are uncomfortable with that.
Yeah, but some apps refuse to work if it’s off.
It’s hard to make it undetectable. The lcoation API has to return something. If the location is “null” or “disabled”, then apps would know.
Most apps play nice. Apps which force close/refuse to work without excessive permissions, i try not to use.
In theory, devs need to know what setting you chose so that, if you legitimately need presicse location, you can tell the user to enable it. In practice I’m sure plenty of apps that claim they need precise location don’t really need it, but it’s not a restricted permission either so Google doesn’t do any validation during their review process
Yeah, makes sense. Sad that it kinda defeats the purpose though