Are we are the stage where it is normal to be giving governments always on background access to our gps location voluntarily?

I can think of a few ways to do this in a privacy-preserving way. The traffic light doesn't need to know your location or who you are, just whether there is a car approaching. But yeah good chance whoever designed this didn't put that much thought into it.

I mean, if your concern is government, your already shit out of luck between your cellphone pinging cell towers, license plate readers, CCTV cameras, Ring cameras, Wi-Fi pinging, etc.

(I would agree that I wouldn't necessarily want fine-grained gps location data being sent to the lowest bidding for-profit traffic light monitoring company.)

> Are we are the stage where it is normal to be giving governments always on background access to our gps location voluntarily?

Yes. See Palantir for examples.

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lgtm. Ship it

If you were to bike around my city, you will notice that between zero and one percent of vehicles will come to a full stop at any stop signs or while doing right turns on red lights. For pedestrian safety, I think rolling right on red lights is worse because the cars will often only be looking left, and never check to their right for someone in the crosswalk or a cyclist approaching on their right.

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In this case they are creating a service and selling it, so it's not like they just decided to roll their own analytics because they hate GA4.

There has never ever been a better time to jump ship from GA. All of your historical GA data will NOT be viewable in your GA4 property. The biggest moat they had was millions of sites with multi year page view data for easy trend comparisons. The moat is now broken and they don't care. GA4 and the forced migration is being handled so bad the only explanation is they would rather nobody use GA anymore.

Yep, I just setup Umami (https://umami.is/) yesterday and added it to some properties alongside GA to see how it goes. It's a very simple interface with everything I really need for web analytics so I'm enjoying it so far. I self-hosted so if it sticks around the only thing I might look at is having a replica running for it (already put a high frequency backup in place).

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We had one bloom in San Diego last fall, and I was very excited to smell something super pungent. It kinds of smelled like wet dirt, which was not much different than any other time inside an indoor greenhouse. It looked amazing, and was worth going just for that, but the smell was very underwhelming.

The one up in Encinitas? Yeah, I saw that one too! Cool stuff. I also noticed an underwhelming smell.

Even if that was literally all it could do, it would easily be worth $50/month for marketing teams.