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Salix@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

They get the traffic data from some third party, not by following their users like gmaps.

www.magicearth.com/faq-en/

Do you share data with third parties?

We send position data to our traffic provider to generate real-time traffic information. The data is anonymized on the phone, using a changing key (so it’s not linked to you), and it is deleted after 5 minutes.

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