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woheller69 / gpscockpit

Android GPS dashboard and head-up display

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Share link uses google #2

Closed gdt closed 2 years ago

gdt commented 2 years ago

This has two problems:

google is a data-gathering company, and an app that promises no tracking should not suggest to share a link which will cause the location to be sent to google
- relative to f-droid, google is a NonFree network service

A suggestion is instead to use one of:

a geo: URI
a link via openstreetmap

woheller69 commented 2 years ago

The app is not sending data to google. It is just sending a link with a URL which allows the receiver to open the link in google maps which is available on most devices. If the receiver does not want to use google he can just use the coordinates in the link. Or you as the sender can use the copy button in the app and then paste the coordinates where you like, e.g in OSMAND.

gdt commented 2 years ago

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that the app directly sends data.

The point is that when the receiver uses the link it will send the location to google, and I don't think that's a good thing to encourage. The README doesn't hint that there's a google link in share, only "Location coordinates can be copied to clipboard, shared, or opened in a maps app,".

woheller69 commented 2 years ago

Will be replaced with OpenStreetMap link in next release

gdt commented 2 years ago

Great - thanks for listening and adjusting.