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Re:Google knows where we are, and so do advertisers by dingaling on Thursday November 12, 2020 @07:49AM (#25069249)
> getting a GPS fix through network assistance still sends data to Google servers

Well, that's not a GPS fix.

If you want a traceless position fix, use GPS Navstar / Glonass / Beidu / Galileo. Yes it takes longer from cold start, but that's the trade-off for privacy.

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Re:Google knows where we are, and so do advertisers by nickcw on Thursday November 12, 2020 @08:37AM (#25069680)
Assuming it is the system I'm thinking of, it is all about sepeeding up the time to a first fix. Without it can be quite a few minutes to get a fix.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS

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