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Brower Data - Why are they not doing more? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by Squizzy@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Apple wont give gyro data but firefox will, firefox wont give battery data but chrome will. Everyone gives screen size and density data.

Why are these data points not discussed with privacy?

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[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What makes you think they aren't?

I participated to W3C workshops and privacy data was definitely part of most if not all discussions.

That being said each browser vendor have their own strategy and opinion based on their business model and culture.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because firefox give gyro data and there is no reason to. Same with screen density.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Literally posted a suggestion yesterday for a sport project to use https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Accelerometer so I definitely see reasons. It might be better with a permission prompt first but still it's not without reason.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I suppose this is the other side of the I dont want an app for everything view.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Indeed, I try to have as little apps as possible... because I don't trust them.

Now that I mostly rely on F-Droid it's a bit different but my default behavior when I have to use an app is "Oh no... you're going to siphon all my data in exchange for mediocre service I'll still have to pay for" whereas I trust my browser a lot more.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

I spent ages trying to find a pv installer that uses eu parts and ended up with a shite chinese app that has installer access with more options than me