David Emery OnlineSafari 5 has implemented geolocation
10 June 2010
Steve Jobs mentioned in his D8 interview that they take location privacy very seriously, and the ‘don’t ask for 24 hours’ checkbox is nice evidence of that; there’s no ‘Always Allow’ option.
Of course, I’d still like to see disclosure granularity at the source—ala Fire Eagle—but this is an improvement on the ‘OK/Cancel’ interface that the iPhone throws up.
I think the lack of an ‘Always Allow’ on this is a serious omission; yes privacy is important but there’s a bunch of sites – like check.in for example – that I go to solely for the purpose of using geolocation features. Having to say ‘yes’ every time you go there is fairly pointless, and breeds geolocation dialogue-box blindness (if you see it all the time, you’re quickly going to start clicking ‘yes’ all the time without thinking about it).
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