this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2025
605 points (97.8% liked)

Technology

73534 readers
2455 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
L4s@hackingne.ws
605
‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 1 week ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
375 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (15 children)

because you are not sharing your location with each other. you are sharing your location with a greedy company that also lets your significant other, and then the highest bidder access this information. they are doing whatever they please with it to make (even more) money.
see, I was so into google's timeline feature years ago. but soon after I realized privacy is a thing I was disgusted of it and turned it off. if you run nextcloud and that addon I don't remember, or reitti, at home and use that, and you keep is somewhat safe*, then it's fine, and I could imagine using that, even just for myself.

I should have explained that. for some reason I tend to assume that lemmy users are privacy conscious, but that's probably not true.

* don't expose the services because your data will get stolen and you'll get hacked by automated systems. run a VPN on the server, only expose the port of that. then you can access the services through a VPN. wireguard is relatively simple, and it's secure.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You can self host location sharing. I do it with Nextcloud. Home assistant can do it too.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think you didn't read my comment

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

you are sharing your location with a greedy company [...] and then the highest bidder access this information

Pretty sure I read it.

You can do location sharing WITHOUT interacting with any "greedy company" or "highest bidder".

Then you state...

if you run nextcloud and that addon I don’t remember, or reitti, at home and use that, and you keep is somewhat safe*

and I confirm that you can do it in Nextcloud, and ALSO Home Assistant... as Home assistant is also likely to be something people are running.

I think you didn’t read my comment

I think that you think that everyone who ever comments to your post is always arguing against you.

Edit: missed a couple of words.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

and I confirm that you can do it in Nextcloud, and ALSO Home Assistant... as Home assistant is also likely to be something people are running.

I'm sorry, I misunderstood you then.

I think that you think that everyone who ever comments to your post is always arguing against you.

I don't think that I think that way. I was responding that because the way the way you said seemed to be more of intending to write new information, than a confirmation.

load more comments (11 replies)