Re: Suggesting tiles by region with finer granularity than country

On 4/26/2015 4:43 AM, Ed Lee wrote:
> On Friday, April 24, 2015 at 10:58:46 AM UTC-7, Chris Hofmann wrote:
>> have we thought about ways the user can share their choice about what
>> level of location precision gets shared with the tiles system
> That's a fair question as one of the main reasons why we're getting into the advertising space is to give better controls to users. Even though technically, IP addresses are automatically sent to our servers (i.e., no real choice to not send other than turning things off), we can indeed provide choice to users that we would honor from the server. But we also don't want to confuse users with too many choices, so we'll need to prioritize which finer grained choices should be made available to users vs providing coarse "turn off all."

I believe that mobile has created a mindset where users expect to be 
asked if their location is being used.  And irrespective of what I 
believe, Brett Gaylor's recent online documentary used the ability to 
geolocate the user by IP address as one of the first, unnerving signals 
about tracking.  For those reasons, I believe this is an important 
control for a user to have.

Patrick