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Re:Bluetooth keystroke-injection in Android, Linux, macOS an... by cma on Saturday December 16, 2023 @08:27AM (#38664022)
Google won't let you use GPS for maps without also turning on wifi for similar reasons I guess. It does make it more accurate but shouldn't be required.
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Re:Bluetooth keystroke-injection in Android, Linux, macOS an... by slau on Saturday December 16, 2023 @09:10AM (#38664303)
Wasn’t there this thing that Google collected a list of SSIDs using their Google Maps cars, and that gave them “good enough” geolocation using passive WiFi scanning, which was much less battery intensive and faster than GPS?
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Re:Bluetooth keystroke-injection in Android, Linux, macOS an... by 0xDEADFED5 on Saturday December 16, 2023 @04:52PM (#38668089)
That's nonsense, Maps works perfectly fine with wifi off
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Re:Bluetooth keystroke-injection in Android, Linux, macOS an... by cma on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @02:24AM (#38692829)
They might have changed it again, but it was a thing, I saw the prompts mentioned here too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30167865

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