Find your Device with an SMS or online with the help of FMDServer. This applications goal is to track your device when it’s lost and should be a…

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    6 months ago

    Yes, you give Big Tech tracking information… that they already have.

    Don’t know about you but Google sure as shit is not tracking my location.

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      6 months ago

      If you think google and your provider don’t already have your location… lol. lmao even

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          5 months ago

          You may want to explain to them why this is the case. There are a lot of reasons google wouldnt have your location:

          1. You are an iPhone user without any Google apps

          2. You are a custom ROM user and have specifically gone out of your way to not install Google Play Services or any Google apps (this is me!)

          3. You are a PinePhone or Librem 5 user and are using Arch (btw) or another distro like Phosh

          4. You don’t have a mobile phone and communicate completely via desktop/laptop and/or landline phone

          5. You genuinely think Google doesn’t harvest your location 8 ways to sunday on stock Android (in which case you are factually and completely wrong - opt-out toggles should be treated as illusory on locked down proprietary systems like Google Play Services).

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        5 months ago

        Please explain how Google would get my location if I don’t run a phone with Google location services and / or don’t allow Google services and apps to access my location. Sure, they may know where you are roughly based on your IP, but that’s just within a very broad region, and can easily be obfuscated by a VPN. Google siphons a shitton of information from everywhere they can, but it’s not like they’ve secretly implanted everyone with a tracking chip either… And neither can they get around any device’s OS-level location permission system.