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Degoogled Android would help this but giving your location data up for free is still the caveat.

• advisedwang 4y ago
  The article suggests this is not getting data from Google (as that requires a warrant) but from other apps that agreed to add location tracking SDKs.
  • joemazerino 4y ago
    I would argue that the average deGoogled device has less apps and Google Play app bloat to decrease the surveillance surface. Less apps translates to less location data.
    • advisedwang 4y ago
      It's a question of _which_ bloat! All the google stuff spying on you goes to Google databases, which (at least as far as we know from public info and the news story here) requires a warrent. It's non-Google apps that are sending location data to the 3rd party brokers supplying this tool. deGoogling a phone has nothing to do with these apps.