FakeTraveler: Fake where your phone is located (Mock location for Android)

Re:FakeTraveler: Fake where your phone is located (Mock loca... by newaccount74 on Thursday August 01, 2024 @03:44AM (#41126994)

I think you are stuck in an "us vs. them" mindset. It's not all consumers vs corporations.

Consumers actually want to use services offered by companies, and willingly accept what you consider drawbacks. We want accurate traffic data in maps, and crowd-sourced key finders, and all the other conveniences afforded by unspoofable location data, and we give up a little bit of control in exchange for that.

Companies don't compensate us with money for crowdsourced data; they compensate us by offering services they couldn't offer otherwise.

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Re:FakeTraveler: Fake where your phone is located (Mock loca... by codebje on Thursday August 01, 2024 @04:32AM (#41127202)

Crowdsourced data is not individually reliable and is already accounting for invalid and incorrect submissions. We can have our cake and eat it too.

The ‘us vs them’ mindset comes from ‘then’ determining what is acceptable for ‘us’ to do purely because it’s good for ‘them’.

If I want to set my location to somewhere I am not, and the only reason I can’t is corporate interests, then a battleground has been drawn up by those interests, not me.

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Re:FakeTraveler: Fake where your phone is located (Mock loca... by newaccount74 on Friday August 02, 2024 @11:17AM (#41139530)

What I am trying to say is that there is no strict difference between "user interests" and "corporate interests".

Companies in general don't want reliable data for the fun of it; they want it in order to provide services that users want.

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