Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing

EnsignWashout@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Home Assistant

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  • suodrazah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Seconded.

    And having each other’s location is really helpful. I’m nervous if my partner doesn’t know where I am.

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    • Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah my wife has MS and I worry when shes late that she is having trouble. And I go hiking in the bush so its good if she has my approximate location

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    (And hoping the location sharing doesnt leak to other applications).

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    • Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We switched to Fairphones running e/OS so we have pretty solid control of that. Im looking forward to postmarketOS being a bit more stable.

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• Liberal_Ghost@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You are still sharing it with google if you have an android phone lol

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  • Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And you don’t think iPhones and Apple don’t know your location?

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    • Liberal_Ghost@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      When did I ever say that? Why would you just assume that since I said google is tracking your location I just being using an iPhone and thibk that apple is better? Fuck apple and google they both suck. Dont use either of them.

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• Joeffect@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  they still have it… if your using an android phone at least… and your cell provider…

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same for any other phone manufacturer. I won’t trust Apple any more than I do with Google.

    The only ones I’d actually trust to keep it somewhat private and probably LineageOS and GrapheneOS (no experience with gOS)

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• markko@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are options that don’t use Google et al.

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  • bystander@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So you have suggestions?

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    • kanishk@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      zood location maybe this

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    • markko@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not something I’ve used very much as I don’t have much need for it, but I have used Locus a few times and I’m pretty comfortable with their privacy policy compared to the vast majority of other options.

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• ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We use a self hosted reitti instance instead now

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