cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/549047

Assisted GNSS is pretty handy. My phones gets my approximate location very fast. If I want to plan a route from where I am, I don’t have to wait a couple minutes for the GNSS signal to be received (if I’m in a location where I can receive it).

But obviously, waiting a couple minutes before starting a journey is acceptable to avoid being tracked by Google, so I disabled the Enhanced Location mode on my Android phone.

Is there a private alternative for A-GNSS?

  • h3ndrik@feddit.de
    4·
    1 year ago

    on android there is microG with the unified location modules. this is the part that can locate you by surrounding cell towers or wifi networks. you can use a third party database and save that to your device.

    For the ‘assisted’ part: i think there are alternate download servers for the satellite data that is required for the A-… part. I don’t know much about that, though. I believe they are incorporated into privacy oriented android versions like GrapheneOS or CalyxOS.

  • WhoRoger@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    There’s some Mozilla service that can work as a drop-in replacement. Dang I wanted to look into it too but I can’t remember how it works. Anyone?