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the while this is a major breach of privacy, for both parties, and also of trust.

How? My situation is similar to the person you’re replying to and I’m curious how two consenting adults sharing their location with each other is “ la major breach of privacy, for both parties, and also of trust”.

Maybe if one party is unwilling or has no say/control in location sharing but specifically in the scenario at hand I don’t see it.

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WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
because you are not sharing your location with each other. you are sharing your location with a greedy company that also lets your significant other, and then the highest bidder access this information. they are doing whatever they please with it to make (even more) money.
see, I was so into google’s timeline feature years ago. but soon after I realized privacy is a thing I was disgusted of it and turned it off. if you run nextcloud and that addon I don’t remember, or reitti, at home and use that, and you keep is somewhat safe*, then it’s fine, and I could imagine using that, even just for myself.

I should have explained that. for some reason I tend to assume that lemmy users are privacy conscious, but that’s probably not true.

* don’t expose the services because your data will get stolen and you’ll get hacked by automated systems. run a VPN on the server, only expose the port of that. then you can access the services through a VPN. wireguard is relatively simple, and it’s secure.

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- LilB0kChoy@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I get that it’s not privacy focused; so much these days isn’t, but I’m still not understanding how two adults knowingly enabling location sharing via a 3rd party service is “a major breach of privacy, for both parties, and also of trust”.
  
  I’m gathering that your intent was more along the lines of “it’s not very privacy conscious since you have no control over how the 3rd party uses that data or any way to control it”, would that be accurate?
  
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  - WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    I get that it’s not privacy focused
    
    its not “not privacy focused”, but it is completely against it.
    
    I’m gathering that your intent was more along the lines of “it’s not very privacy conscious since you have no control over how the 3rd party uses that data or any way to control it”, would that be accurate?
    
    well, for the most part yes, very mildly
    
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    LilB0kChoy@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    at that point that difference would not matter to me
    
    Got it. Seems like you’re applying your preference to the original commenters situation; that’s where I was getting confused.
    
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