Google Maps location sharing is almost ready to become a built-in Android feature (www.androidpolice.com)

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[-] infeeeee@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The title is misleading. Article says, currently location sharing is a Google Maps feature and it will become a Google Play Services feature, not an Android feature.

Google Play Services is NOT the only way you can use Android.

Please correct me if I'm wrong I haven't used Google Maps nor Play Services for years. MicroG is good enough for me.

[-] baatliwala@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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...

[-] infeeeee@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months 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.

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