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by gruez 134 days ago
>- Do not share - Might as well uninstall the app

Unless you're some sort of globetrotter going to a new city every week, the app is quite usable just by adding your city.

>Before this, The Weather Channel had the real-time location of millions worldwide

Are you sure apple wasn't proxying the traffic through their servers?

edit: for instance the stocks app very prominently shows the data is from yahoo stocks, but if you check "most contacted domains" in app privacy report, they're all apple domains. It doesn't contact yahoo at all.