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mobile apps often track the user's movements. Each user's location history starts out anonymized, but it is not hard to identify the user by correlating that data with other data.

This malicious functionality exists because the programs involved are nonfree.

If these apps were free/libre, users could change them not to send location data, or to send spoofed location data. If the operating systems were free/libre, users could change them to offer the option of spoofing the app with incorrect location data.

You might fondly believe that if a certain app charges for use, then it won't track the user, but there is no objective reason to assume that is always true. Paying to use an app does not forcibly stop it from tracking the user's movements.

Steve Jobs used Apple's censorship power to impose prudery on the net, and this is part of why Stumblr is now deleting everything that won't be rated G.

I tried to view a Tumblr page, but its contents did not appear. It seemed to be totally dependent on nonfree Javascript code. Whatever may disappear from Tumblr, I personally will not miss it. Nonetheless, I am concerned about this issue because creeping prudish censorship is dangerous in general; we should fight it in general.

Let us therefore invite Apple to go fuck itself and post a selfie of that act on Stumblr.

Everyone: call on Amazon employees to refuse military work.

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