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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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Thanks, but I don’t need to know the weather in my personal space (lemmy.world)

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[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This is actually a really great feature. Dark Sky first started using crowdsourced barometric pressure readings to provide rain warnings. It provided a 10-minute warning for rain that was incredibly accurate. Living in NY, I got a 10-minute notification because someone 10-minutes southwest of me just got rained on.

Apple bought Dark Sky a couple years ago, and integrated the feature into the Weather app. The data is anonymized (hashed, encrypted, and relayed), so now it’s completely private.

It uses more power by leaving location services and barometric readings on persistently, but you can turn it on and off when you need it. It’s great for cyclists, runners, and hikers.

[–] scrion@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Technically, wouldn't you need the guy 10 minutes in the direction of the rain cloud to have turned it on when you go on a hike? Makes the battery saving argument kinda moot I guess, you should get the notification anyway, if enough people in your area are providing sufficient data for the short term forecast.

Now in order to make that happen, people should participate if they're using the feature, but that's almost a moral argument I guess.

Anyway, would still be nice if iOS / Android had more fine grained permission controls.