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To: Openurmind
Turn off all permissions for all apps, the convenience is not worth the lack of privacy.

I set mine to “only when in use” if I use an app.

I use very few apps.

7 posted on 01/09/2019 5:26:53 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: Pontiac

Good for you... It’s a start... Know how many apps I have had turn themselves back on during an update? Especially the weather apps, they won’t take no for an answer. I just removed them all and can live without them.

It only takes a few extra seconds to pull up a website and zoom in on a map to find my local weather. Same with everything apps can provide, you can find everything you want without giving ANY permissions to anyone, just takes slightly more personal effort and brain power.

What’s happened is we as a culture do not want to make the effort to think for ourselves anymore, we want everything to think for us, Our cars... our phones... Anything that helps keep us from wasting the time and effort to think. And those who would take advantage of and profit from this fact just absolutely love it, encourage it, and we fall for it.


13 posted on 01/09/2019 6:07:20 AM PST by Openurmind
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