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There's so many ways to fake your location data. There's one way that you can't really fake: Send them a secret code on a piece of paper in the US mail to their physical address. NextDoor used to do this at one point.
There's so many ways to fake your location data. There's one way that you can't really fake: Send them a secret code on a piece of paper in the US mail to their physical address. NextDoor used to do this at one point.
That seems a little excessive for an app like this. The only way I know of that users can fake their location is with a rooted device. I check for rooted devices in the app though so locations can't be spoofed.
Reminds me of Jodel ( https://jodel.com/ ), an app originally focused on students. It lost quite some activity in the last decade though, gaining fewer users than it loses.
There's so many ways to fake your location data. There's one way that you can't really fake: Send them a secret code on a piece of paper in the US mail to their physical address. NextDoor used to do this at one point.
Many people will refuse, on principle, to provide this information to any company, unless perhaps it's for home delivery of some good.
This app (like any consumer social app) needs to first solve the cold start problem: make it useful for a single user, layer the social on top. Instagram had photo filters; Strava had activity stats. What could this have?
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That seems a little excessive for an app like this. The only way I know of that users can fake their location is with a rooted device. I check for rooted devices in the app though so locations can't be spoofed.
So presumably this will be an evil app that reinforces Google monopoly by using Play Integrity?
Reminds me of Jodel ( https://jodel.com/ ), an app originally focused on students. It lost quite some activity in the last decade though, gaining fewer users than it loses.
Similarly, in the US YikYak was also popular at colleges but killed itself by forcing user accounts instead of full anonymity.
No web version? No sale. WTF is wrong with these social apps!?!? Who wants to chat on a tiny screen when they have a computer available. Especially for local apps that function only when you're home.
I agree with you personally... But at this point it is clear the answer is "everyone". The average consumer is not using a desktop for personal computing daily, just work.
There's so many ways to fake your location data. There's one way that you can't really fake: Send them a secret code on a piece of paper in the US mail to their physical address. NextDoor used to do this at one point.
How does this work if you don't get mail service at your physical address? (PO box service only)
There's so many ways to fake your location data. There's one way that you can't really fake: Send them a secret code on a piece of paper in the US mail to their physical address. NextDoor used to do this at one point.
Obviously not unhackable and often outdated as people move around, but I always thought phone number area codes were a quick and dirty way to establish or roughly segment people by location.