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Classic corporate response. They're sorry because their analytics shows that brand sentiment will increase by x%, and they don't even need to mean it.

Happy customer of Dark Sky here.

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Dark Sky actually addressed this topic recently with some additional information. Good read.

https://blog.darksky.net/location-privacy/

Just deleted AccuWeather. I am 100% convinced by the blog post -- but the DarkSky App is unfortunately not available outside USA.

I really wish that the user could selectively switch on or off what permissions an app receives -- Instead of a blanket list of permissions at the install. For instance -- "lie to the App and give location obly within 100m".

Maybe this (noise added to data going to advertisers) should be required on phones, it's basically an enforced form of data privacy.

iOS has always had this and android has had it since marshmallow.

I'm not sure where you are, but the Dark Sky Weather app is available in the UK. I believe many other app use the Dark Sky api too, like Carrot Weather, which is quirky but quite good.

The problem was actually wifi information (which can be used to infer location) not location. What OS are you using that you can't choose permissions individually for an app? I forget which version of Android got that but it's at least a couple years old at this point. The other benefit being that it installs updates without having to ask for you permission, then when the app needs a permission, it asks you if you want to grant that permission. And you can go to Settings->Apps->[The App]->Permissions to enable/disable them individually later.

Recent convert to Dark Sky. Highly recommend it. One of those increasingly rare instances where you can pay upfront for quality software.

Unless you are outside the US or UK or don't want to create a new iTunes account tied to those places (if you happen to have a valid card or an iTunes gift card for these countries)

https://darksky.net/

A web is not the same experience as a real native application (specially since I can't use the web on my watch)

As someone in Canada who wasn't able to download DarkSky for iOS, I've found Weather Line provides many of the same features (including up-to-the-minute precipitation forecasts). It uses the DarkSky's API for its data.

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