GP states correctly that they believe the default 'choice' of a user should be 'opting-out' of location tracking.
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It's not though.
Critical for myriad elective purposes? Sure.
Unfortunately, awareness-raising and solution-building are probably two entirely separate stages for this issue.
If the app generates them, the OS receives them. That's why the Signal app offers this setting.
Critical distinction, as merely changing OS notification settings will simply prevent notification content from being displayed on-screen.
The big bear tended the fire, breaking up the dry branches by holding one end and stepping on them, like people do. He was good at keeping it going at the same level. Another bear poked the fire from time to time but the others left it alone. It looked like only a few of the bears knew how to use fire and were carrying the others along. But isn’t that how it is with everything? Every once in a while, a smaller bear walked into the circle of firelight with an armload of wood and dropped it onto the pile. Median wood has a silvery cast, like driftwood.There's a considerable difference. And doing whatever one can to mitigate the former shouldn't be discouraged by falsely equivocating the latter.
I run both side-by-side.
Just this past January I implemented something on my workstation I should've done a long time ago: outbound filtering all network traffic via so-called 'Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security'. I've also skipped more Insider builds in the past two months than I have in the past 11 years.
The only thing keeping me around at this point is the migration overhead and (at least I tell myself) window 'snapping'.
I think I'm beginning to realize, however, that the onus should be on both sides of the issue to find a reasonable common ground.