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Google is quite good at these little screw-you features: > At home protection. If a user has chosen to save their home address in their Google Account, their A
by amluto 3y ago
Google is quite good at these little screw-you features:
> At home protection. If a user has chosen to save their home address in their Google Account, their Android device will also ensure that it does not contribute crowdsourced location reports to the Find My Device network when it is near the user’s home.
This is a feature that is fundamentally on-device, and it’s even a privacy feature, but for some reason it requires a Google account.
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- e44858 3y agoDoes any part of Find My work without a Google account?
- amluto 3y agoThat’s a fair question — if your phone doesn’t report beacons without a Google account, then requiring a Google account to mask off areas isn’t so bad. But you should still be able to mask off areas without telling Google your home address.
- rickdeckard 3y agoYeah, I was laughing when I saw this. "Come on...tell us where you live. We already know anyway, but it's better if you tell us. It's for your own protection!"