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Complicated app settings are a threat to user privacy
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this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2024
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It's too bad the author didn't spend any time on the information that smartphone apps are allowed to collect by default, with no in-app settings to restrict them at all.
I'm with him in sentiment, of course: Dark patterns are rotten wherever they're used, including data protection settings. But a discussion of privacy focused on window curtains seems almost pointless when the doors are jammed wide open.
“The problem isn't data protection; the problem is data collection.”
Oh well. I guess every little bit of attention on the issue might help it get fixed some day.