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[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dumb excuse. Internet is not used for GPS.

[–] Sean@liberal.city 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Illecors @petrescatraian
Mobile devices that use GPS for location services, don't use the satellites exclusively, they use GPS-A location which relies on triangulation between cell towers, and for greater preciseness wifi SSID signal strength.

Turning off internet location services make GPS-A devices unable to use GPS services

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, but AGPS is not GPS. And GPS receivers are tiny already. So this makes no difference to anything.