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Plus, their apps insist on advertising their other crap to you at every opportunity.

Stop pestering me because you think I haven't given you enough money yet. Go away.

It also wants all three of wifi, Bluetooth, and location on, otherwise it provides a reminder that you have them switched off - even though it works just with wifi on.

Location permission is the weird one. Well yes the WLAN network ties to location. But still why can't it be absolutely clearly separate from satellite positioning systems...

you can add _nomap to a wifi ssid and apple/google should ignore the ap for location.

In a similar fashion Honda shows you an indismissible error on the dashboard when you turn off private data sharing, and even with premium subscription to their app they wouldn’t let you find your car’s location on a map until you enable precise location on your phone.

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