Title is editorialized because the original is, frankly, clickbait garbage

  • kbal@fedia.io
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    6 months ago

    Normal people: Gladly give google maps access to location data at all times and never think about it

    Me: Instinctively worry that on the rare occasions I do use google maps it’s somehow identifying me and keeping track of all the locations I look at, so I sometimes look at random places I’m not really interested in just to throw off the algorithms.

    But most of the time I prefer osmand.

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      6 months ago

      Osmand is really cool and it’s really capable but I understand that it isn’t for people who don’t want to tinker a bit to make things work just right for them.

      For that Organic Maps is what I recommend.

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      6 months ago

      Or have your phone location turned on and be super boring back and forth. When you deviate use a burner.

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      6 months ago

      You: thinking they weren’t already tracking you by a zillion other means including wifi/bt and cellular triangulation

      Me: google-free wifi-only phone with all radios/mic/camera physically disconnected unless I need something specific

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      6 months ago

      Normal people: Gladly give google maps access to location data at all times and never think about it

      Yet also same normal people get utterly genuinely shock when they see a map of their past locations for the last 3 months.