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[โ€“] lowleveldata@programming.dev 33 points 1 year ago (10 children)

So that the phones can ping each other in order to find lost phones

[โ€“] snooggums@midwest.social 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

That's their excuse.

Better be an opt-in feature instead of an opt-out, because I'm tired of needing to turn off new 'features' I don't need that are said to be for something that sounds kind of reasonable but ends up being because they want to track more things and have more control over you.

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