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How is this a click bait title? Hacker News commenters often have a bad perspective on how non-tech people ought to see the world, and this is a great example. I'm not in tech, so I find it entirely reasonable to expect that if my phone has a "location tracking off" switch, it will disable location tracking. I honestly can't comprehend why you think this isn't a reasonable point of view.

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There's been a bizarre shift in discourse about privacy in the last 15 years. When most of these posters were young, they actually cared about keeping their personal information private. The idea that you would carry around a device with a location tracker that could only be turned off by deactivating the device, would have been horrifying.

Now, at least on HN, these same people are saying This is Fine. Maybe their companies depend on exploiting the ignorant.

Cell phones 15 years ago still leaked location information via the cell tower they connected to, didn’t they? This doesn’t seem like a development from the past 15 years like you’re saying.

So if you were privacy conscious to that extent 15 years ago, you didn’t carry a cell phone. That didn’t change.

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