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      1. NYTimes discovered the majority of apps' business models. If this is a problem for you it isn't just third party weather apps. It's pretty much all apps. If this lawsuit is won on behalf of privacy, there are a lot of lawsuits just waiting to happen. nytimes.com/2019/01/03/technology/weather-channel-app-lawsuit.html
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      I think a renegotiation of how this industry works is for the best. But the impact would be huge. If the Weather Channel loses I suspect the effects on every day users of the app store would be significant.
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    Like... god knows, you'd likely have to rebuild Android from the ground up to keep it from ever reporting your location to Google. And that's the *Operating System*.


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