To: DugwayDuke
Why does this app need my location data? It won’t work unless I turn location data on.
Google pays the free app writer a portion of the revenues it makes from selling ads. Your location gives Google the ability to run local ads. That is also why so many websites ask permission to get your location info. So they can run an ad from your local Chevy dealer, rather than some generic nationwide ad.
14 posted on
03/26/2018 2:57:00 PM PDT by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: Zhang Fei
Zhang Fei wrote: “Google pays the free app writer a portion of the revenues it makes from selling ads. Your location gives Google the ability to run local ads.”
Figured that. Just another reason why I only give permissions when forced too. And, why I use ad blockers.
17 posted on
03/27/2018 6:19:18 AM PDT by
DugwayDuke
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