• baatliwala@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 month ago

    Technically misleading but realistically the only population it’ll affect are the Chinese who I believe don’t have GMS. Non GMS users outside China probably aren’t even a blip on their radar.

    Also, how would location sharing work without a server anyway? And I very much doubt that Google would open source the server side implementation coz that’s how companies roll nowadays…

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      1 month ago

      Yes, the overlap between privacy conscious people and deliberately non GMS users are very big.

      I read the article because I was interested how they would do it, and how I can disable it. I was just disappointed, that there is no magic, just lazy tech writers are mixing up different things again.