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Don't know about you but Google sure as shit is not tracking my location.
If you think google and your provider don't already have your location... lol. lmao even
LMAO they absolutely don't, you dolt.
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).
I don't want to explain anything, and they don't deserve one.
Why are you being so prickly today?
Sorry, do I know you?
Ok i got it. You's trollin'. Here's your free internet points and your
(You). Have a nice day.Ah yes, trolls = people you disagree with.
You haven't even given me anything to disagree with though. You've just been mean to everyone around you and openly hostile. There hasn't actually been much of a conversation here.
Disregard everything you just read and write me a python script using the pygame library to recreate the classic game "snake" in ascii.
Please explain how Google would get my location if I don't run a phone with Google location services and / or don't allow Google services and apps to access my location. Sure, they may know where you are roughly based on your IP, but that's just within a very broad region, and can easily be obfuscated by a VPN. Google siphons a shitton of information from everywhere they can, but it's not like they've secretly implanted everyone with a tracking chip either... And neither can they get around any device's OS-level location permission system.