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Re:Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun by SiempreViernes on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @04:20AM (#46972735)
Most people have mobile phones that need to roughly know your position as a technical necessity, why are you speaking like its 1990's?
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Re:Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun by yencabulator on Friday February 13, 2026 @06:12PM (#47009119)
Not just the phone needing to know your location, your rough location has to be reported to a central server, because that's how incoming calls/texts are routed to the phone.
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Re:Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun by skeptic_ai on Saturday February 14, 2026 @04:50AM (#47013190)
I can leave my phone at home and route SMS and voice via http to my real phone.
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