• smiletolerantly@awful.systems
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    20 hours ago

    When we need to know each others location, we share it via element / matrix. Our own server, so no third party.

    Happens maybe four times a year.

    (Also, do you just always have location services enabled?? IMO it’s a battery drain, I pretty much only enable it for this and while I need to navigate)

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      18 hours ago

      Nobody to answer to (and share my location).
      Despite being somewhat aware of the privacy concerns of having location services always enabled, the potential of having access to finding my phone based on the service to find it (Apples and Googles feature) is more important (to me).
      Same reason I have cellular always enabled.

      Main reason I keep location services enabled is for geo-tagged photos.
      At first I always kept it disabled because of privacy trust issues (e.g. sharing a picture might not always strip the geotags) but since going on a vacation in sri lanka and being able to trace back a picture to a location it became a very useful feature.

      Example from my vacation in Sri Lanka:

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        12 hours ago

        Yeah I’d turn off location tracking where it not for photo geostamps. It’s so useful and fun to track down photos.