It turns out you can get a location just by scanning nearby wifi and cell tower signals!

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[–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

ITT people not understanding that non-de-googled android phones use that method for localization by default, falling back to GPS only when WiFi trilateration fails.

It is a smart robust way for localization and beacondb breaks the data monopoly.

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