(05-13-2021, 05:30 AM)dukla2000 Wrote: Presumably your weather application is getting your location from your IP address? And could also refine things based on the WiFi SSID?
Not just presumably, certainly.
Quote:dukla2000Or conversely, you can't expect any phone to keep your location secret if you run applications that are doing their damndest to determine your location?
Why are you telling me that I cant expect a setting in the pinephone that says "Location services are turned off" to turn off location tracking services on my pinephone?
I might want to check the weather in another city and the weather app certainly doesnt need to know my location for that. Which it should not even have axcess to in the first place if the setting worked as it should.
Apps like Maps and Weather are an easy give-away to show if location services truly are on or off as they like you say, "do their damndest to determine your location". The issue is that not all apps are so upfront and will show you clearly that your location is in fact being used EVEN THOUGH you have turned off location tracking services on a device that markets itself as a privacy phone.
