• delirious_owl@discuss.online
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    7 months ago

    This is unintelligible. If you’re connected to a cell tower then they know where you are.

    Whereas if you’re on airplane mode on a VPN, then they may think you’re on a different Continent.

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    7 months ago

    The carrier can still roughly triangulate your position based on the signal strength. Not much you can do on that front but to go in airplane mode if you don’t want to be tracked through the cell towers.

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    7 months ago

    Will it let me control when my location is shared with Google? Where I am, my carrier already knows my name, full address, and credit card information.

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      7 months ago

      Yes, you can obviously already do that.

      Whether you trust them or not is a different issue.

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      7 months ago

      plus ISPs can triangulate you from you mobile connection.

      in fact they have to if they want your cell reception to work at all