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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...

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…

        • SemperverusEnglish
          3•6 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).

      • @efstajas
        1•6 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.