Are the demo servers a good enough example? https://www.traccar.org/demo-server/

Id have to register my own account with my personal data and connect my private phone to send my location to a server i know nothing about. Lets not.

It's a great open-source option, but I'd also skip using their hosted service given that Traccar is a Russian company.

> but I'd also skip using their hosted service given that Traccar is a Russian company.

Why?

I mean... I don't live in russia, russian police/fsb has no power here, same probably is true for you too, and if i/yo do something stupid, the chances of a russian company giving data to my/your local police is much lower than if I/you used some local company. Why should hosting in russia be problematic here?

No legal power :)

As opposed to their soft power, which is also non-existent?

Because nobody ever got murdered or abducted in a safe country by a dictatorial regime :)

At that level of paranoia, why dont you just self host.

https://www.traccar.org/download/

I don't specifically distrust the code. I dont know where my data on that hosted service ends up since its rather private information. So self hosting is an option if i can see a demo without providing my personal data.

I mean...

How else do you expect to test something? You either install it on your own server, and send your private data to your private server, or you use a public server and give them data.... what third option do you expect?

A demo with fake data allowing you to explore the product. This is actually very common in both opensource and in the commercial sector