Wow, it's interesting how much HN dislikes your comment given the number of privacy and cryptography experts here.
(Edit: Probably the repeated pejorative usage of 'nerd', I guess.)
(Edit: Probably the repeated pejorative usage of 'nerd', I guess.)
> You should not close apps because you may interfere with tracking your location and other data collection.
That's bullshit reason - you'd write a background service, not try to stop users from closing the app. For any single application I'm using I'm happy for it to be cached rather than restarting every time. This is just arguing against a cache layer, because <made up reason>.
> A started service must manage its own lifecycle. That is, the system does not stop or destroy the service unless it must recover system memory and the service continues to run after onStartCommand() returns.
A started service shouldn't be killed randomly - after all, that's how the downloads are handled - you don't see those disappearing without a reason.
The issue is not simply privacy, it's control of the hardware.
The real question, I guess, is "do you have the knack"?