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Re:Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers an... by isoprophlex on Monday December 10, 2018 @02:01PM (#18650284)
The technical need for assisted GPS notwithstanding..:

> - Android by default has the default on option to scan wifi and Bluetooth when you turn them off to find wifi/bluetooth and coorelate it to your location.

What the actual fuck?!

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Re:Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers an... by kop316 on Monday December 10, 2018 @02:09PM (#18650352)
https://medium.com/@ExplainAndroid/how-to-disable-wifi-and-b...
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Re:Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers an... by isoprophlex on Monday December 10, 2018 @03:35PM (#18650983)
Nice, thanks!
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