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delirious_owl ,
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This is unintelligible. If you're connected to a cell tower then they know where you are.

Whereas if you're on airplane mode on a VPN, then they may think you're on a different Continent.

SmoothLiquidation ,

It should let you choose what location should be sent. Flood their data with junk.

delirious_owl ,
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Sounds like a good way to get charged for roamimg

blandfordforever ,

Roaming happens when you connect to a different cell network than the one you have a contract with, not when your location data says you are in certain places.

delirious_owl ,
@delirious_owl@discuss.online avatar

You're right, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a cell company miss an opportunity to charge you a few hundred bucks extra because you're feeding them false data, when they profit off of selling that data

mp3 ,
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The carrier can still roughly triangulate your position based on the signal strength. Not much you can do on that front but to go in airplane mode if you don't want to be tracked through the cell towers.

Deckweiss ,

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    piracysails ,

    Any source for that?

    Pantherina ,

    Airplane mode, always!

    comfydecal ,

    *Faraday often imo

    Hotzilla ,

    They don't even need to do triangulation nowadays, tower has direction and distance, because the way how 4G/5G work. 5G also has MIMO (meaning one burst of data to you carry data to other clients in same direction).

    xep ,

    Will it let me control when my location is shared with Google? Where I am, my carrier already knows my name, full address, and credit card information.

    lud ,

    Yes, you can obviously already do that.

    Whether you trust them or not is a different issue.

    delirious_owl ,
    @delirious_owl@discuss.online avatar

    Not too sure about that it you installed gapps

    umbrella ,
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    plus ISPs can triangulate you from you mobile connection.

    in fact they have to if they want your cell reception to work at all

    shortwavesurfer ,

    I'm going to link my comment from an earlier post of this on a different community.

    https://monero.town/comment/4014042

    HubertManne ,
    @HubertManne@kbin.social avatar

    yeah and I don't even understand the conversation around accuracy. Even vaguely knowing what im about and doing is to much.

    Deckweiss ,

    Time to leave your personal spying gadget at home lol

    HubertManne ,
    @HubertManne@kbin.social avatar

    yeah although ironically as a long time smart phone not user im thinking ove getting one as a camera. sigh

    lud ,

    Imo apps knowing what city I am in is very different from apps knowing exactly where I am. While I wouldn't want to leak either my exact location or my city to someone that shouldn't have access to it, I don't really mind that much (compared to exact) if someone knows the city.

    A weather app barely needs any accuracy so it shouldn't have it. But a navigation app does so it gets it.

    HubertManne ,
    @HubertManne@kbin.social avatar

    yeah if you use those kinds of things but the point is that carrier knowing your general location for no good reason is to much.

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