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Re:Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down throug... by monlockandkey on Sunday February 02, 2025 @12:30PM (#42910109)
How did were the apps able to collect geolocation even though location services were disabled?
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Re:Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down throug... by baggy_trough on Sunday February 02, 2025 @12:35PM (#42910153)
Probably from IP address geolocation.
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Re:Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down throug... by abound on Sunday February 02, 2025 @01:02PM (#42910371)
Indeed, the article notes that the lat/long wasn't "GPS exact", more like "postal code exact".
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Re:Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down throug... by xenic on Sunday February 02, 2025 @01:05PM (#42910390)
Doing that on the client side sounds pointless though, if you are already transmitting the ip.
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Re:Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down throug... by baggy_trough on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @06:34PM (#42956927)
It might be for consistency between vendors.
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