I don’t know if it the better place to ask my question and if it’s not I apologize…

I am a biker and despite my love for FOSS applications, I cannot deny that Waze is very practical (especially for speed camera signaling). I use CalyxOS and there is a feature that makes it easy to use the work profile. On the other hand, I do not know how useful it is to limit my data transmission to Google. Is this really usefull? (I also have TrackerControl, but if I block anything, Waze no longer works)

  • @[email protected]
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    141 year ago

    I’ve come to use a privacy friendly, completely local workaround:

    There’s sheets of metal at the side of the road with numbers on them, the exact design depends on location. I read this number, and then keep the equivalent number on my vehicles dashboard at an equal or lower amount (slightly above seems to work as well), which prevents the speed cameras from triggering.

    • @nosnahcOP
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      71 year ago

      Thank you so much! I’ll be carefull now.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      Interesting idea, but why depend on such unreliable things as mental arithmetic and your eyesight when you can just have OSMAnd+ scream at you to go slower?