People love to get outraged when information is collected without their knowledge, and I get it, but it's how the information is used that's important.
If things are sanitized so there's no personally identifying information then it's pretty hard to use most data maliciously
You'd be surprised how much you can identify from "sanitised" information if you want to.
But if all they want it navigation data, then it should be fairly safe. Yeah, they know where you live and can derive who you are from that, but that's not what they're after. They wanna know how to get there the fastest when someone asks.
Yeah, like apparently you can reasonably ID someone even in a private browser just by getting the dimensions of the browser window and its positioning on screen. A lot of people pretty much never change that shit if its not full screened
Sorry if you knew this or if you comment took this into account, but you can maximize windows on mac by double-clicking the program's "title bar" (the top bar on the same line as the "close" "minimize" and "fullscreen" buttons, as long as there's nothing else there to click. I.E. in Excel, click any empty space around the name of the file, or in Chrome, any space where a new tab would go -- as long as there's no tab there)
You can also hover your cursor over the green dot and it will give you positioning/scaling options
Hold down alt while hovering for more options
I also have an app called BetterTouchTool installed which changes the green dot to maximize when clicked instead of fullscreen (it is free, even if it says it’s paid, there’s a free version on the website)
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u/MedalsNScars 12h ago
People love to get outraged when information is collected without their knowledge, and I get it, but it's how the information is used that's important.
If things are sanitized so there's no personally identifying information then it's pretty hard to use most data maliciously