Find your Device with an SMS or online with the help of FMDServer. This applications goal is to track your device when it’s lost and should be a…

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    5 months ago

    Took a bit to figure out what it was even claiming to do

    When enabled your phone constantly sends e2e encrypted your location to the server where you can than access it from a webbrowser.

    God no. Just take a hatchet to my battery and be done with it.

    Also: Until a month or two ago, sure. But google finally got their shit together-ish and set up a tracking network the same as apple and samsung. And that is what you are sacrificing your privacy for. Yes, you give Big Tech tracking information… that they already have. In exchange you can actually have peace of mind of knowing your luggage is in the same airport or even where you parked. And you can’t really self-host a crowd-sourced network.

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      God no. Just take a hatchet to my battery and be done with it.

      You’d be surprised what little impact on battery it actually has. I find this type of swift casting aside of something you’ve not even tried to be rather disingenuous.

      Also, if your device has a cellular modem with an active connection, your provider is already tracking your location constantly and selling your personal information to the highest bidder anyways (including law enforcement and governments), so IMO it’s a bit pointless to worry so much about that.