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Re:Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Ca... by pasta on Sunday January 06, 2019 @03:03AM (#18837207)
On Android location != GPS.

For location also Wi-Fi is used. So GPS can be turned off but they can track your location by looking at the available Wi-Fi spots around you.

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Re:Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Ca... by glandium on Sunday January 06, 2019 @04:38AM (#18837464)
My battery was being sucked by GPS according to the battery usage reporting. And that stopped being the case when I revoked the Google app permissions.
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