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submitted 5 months ago by Sunny to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Find your Device with an SMS or online with the help of FMDServer. This applications goal is to track your device when it's lost and should be a...

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[–] semperverus@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You may want to explain to them why this is the case. There are a lot of reasons google wouldnt have your location:

You are an iPhone user without any Google apps
You are a custom ROM user and have specifically gone out of your way to not install Google Play Services or any Google apps (this is me!)
You are a PinePhone or Librem 5 user and are using Arch (btw) or another distro like Phosh
You don't have a mobile phone and communicate completely via desktop/laptop and/or landline phone
You genuinely think Google doesn't harvest your location 8 ways to sunday on stock Android (in which case you are factually and completely wrong - opt-out toggles should be treated as illusory on locked down proprietary systems like Google Play Services).