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Yeah, it seems pretty explicit that you're making your location public when you press this button. I'd say the 'bug' is in people not realising that pushing their location to a 'show users near me' function inherently reveals their location to some degree of accuracy.



This is the exact message: https://i.imgur.com/PDnMmQV.png -- Additionally, iOS allows you to make your location imprecise on purpose.

This is a non-issue, this guy "Ahmed" is just fishing for attention with an incendiary title.


yeah, I would definitely say that that's fine. like, if it were some dark pattern or unknown or something then whatever, but it's pretty explicit




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