Replying to Avatar Brisket

I've never run bitchat at home because of this screen. Why force me to turn accurate location services on? 🚩

I have bitchat installed on the offchance that it may be entertaining if not useful in the future. Location services are disabled for it, so I'd have to manually enable them beforehand.

The Bluetooth dream was initially sold to me at university as enabling a decentralised mesh network. Devices just talked to each other & we laughed at any privacy concerns as being insignificant.
Avatar
Bill Cypher 4d ago

It is partially because android treats Bluetooth as a location service in permissions. One toggle gps and Bluetooth access for this app yes or no.

It makes sense in the sense that gps and Bluetooth can both be used to determine your physical location. It makes no sense in the sense that I don't want to have to allow gps access to an app to configure my noise cancelling headphones.

Reply to this note

Please Login to reply.

Discussion

Avatar
Brisket 4d ago

It's been a while since I ran Google Android. That sounds like a feature that benefits Google more than users. Fuck Google but I'll keep bitchat installed & locked.