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There must be a way to completely opt out and not have this affect your device in any way right?

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I doubt it

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Looks like I’ll be installing some custom OS like Graphene.

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@Izzy @Tagger That’s an excellent choice if you want to have control over your phone instead of it having control over you. 😉

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I can’t see why not. With Apple it is a simple on-off toggle for each device and of turned on the user chooses one device that they want to use to indicate their location

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But we are talking about having our device inadvertently used by Google to locate other peoples devices. They are advertising that they have a network of over a billion android devices to locate such things. Not only do I not want to buy a tracker I also don’t want to participate in this network.

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I’m okay with helping people find their things. Especially if I’m in an airport or generally in public.

Maybe I’d want it off when I’m connected to my home WiFi.

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