location tracking

[ergo owl]

 >  I DO apologize if this sounds a bit like a "rant"  but when I think of "Linux"  I have always thought it was free of all this Google/Apple/ Microsoft style
         Hidden tracking services.

Me too brother. I guess my current view have evolved into one where even some linux distributions sacrifice privacy for mainstream user experience. However, I still believe that there are some hope for privacy focused users on Linux to modify their own device software to suit their personal preferences, something that definetly is not an option while using Apple/Microsoft devices. That said, removing geoclue is not as simple as doing an "apt remove geoclue" as thats not the name it is installed under. I have yet to find out the scope of all files installed related to geoclue and their locations and which other software depend on it to function. Hopefully none because if I cant purge geoclue from my system entirely or at least render it useless by masking its data without breaking the system then its on to another distro or maybe even better, start taking handwriting classes for writing letters instead of sms.

Guess, for the time being I should just delete the invasive app's and carry my handheld gps,   if I need directions.

I fear that would just be a blindfold for what is anyway going on underneath the hood. In time the chess app might start using geoclue aswell to "find players in your area" or any other seemingly harmless app. We already know that the location services option in mobian doesnt effect geoclue and as of yet there is no way to find out which individual apps draw data from it since Maps and Weather are not even listed in the geoclue.conf file yet they make use of it somehow as changing values in the file have a direct effect on their ability to use location. We need to find the root of this evil and purge it.

Edit: Little bit overdramatic there at the end. All of this is of course just my opinion, I appriciate other people having a different take on the subject.