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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I’ll take it as a win - letting a user decide not to give exact gps coordinates to the tower but forcing them to use the less accurate, more “difficult” triangulation.

Obviously theres only so much you can do, the fundamental nature of cell phones means your provider knows your location. But that doesn’t mean we need to make it easy and exact