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After extensive testing, for a period of just over a year, with two identical phones (one set on high accuracy, the other on GPS only, and swapping them around after six months), I have seen no profit in using high accuracy over GPS only -- if one was bang on, so was the other, and any drift was pretty much the same.
I live in the sticks, where there are fewer towers, etc; and work in cities. The results are the same wherever I am.
So is there any real advantage, except to data-slurpers?
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Me think location services are not for you to find your way, but for them to find you...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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They don't need location services for that.
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I have recently been looking into the location awareness of Android. I tend to turn off such things (and other tracking) yet it regularly notifies me of the weather in my location despite WIFI and BT being off (well, from a UI perspective anyway). Although the notification can be blocked, it will obviously not stop the hidden tracking that is clearly going on.
I am aware that Google's core business model is based on the harvesting of individuals' data, but this is just too blatantly dishonest. The walled garden of the more fruit based provider is not something which appeals to me.
It goes without saying
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The "enhanced accuracy" uses information they "accidentally" gleaned while doing google street view due to a "bug" in their code. Definitely a mistake as google respects your privacy.
The reason google is pushing for dominance in the browser space is so that when browsers implement "no tracking" or any other privacy settings, google can just ignore those settings for its own services. Ad blockers will block only adverts not coming from their ad servers and so on. All just part and parcel of not being evil.
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...and to further prove just how benevolent they are--they've already announced they intend to kill off cookies. How nice of them. Total privacy, here we come...
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1 - flip phone
2 - often turned off (OK - battery still in)
3 - often forgotten at home (power on or off - who pays attention)
4 - no "apps"
So, they know where I live - but they knew that to get the phone. And, if they bother tracking the thing, I'm home a lot, or just plan gone.
Wipe the junk off the phone - use it for a telephone.
Even if they could still find you, your engagement with reality makes you a harder target than the cell-phone zombies, anyway.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I have seen no profit in using high accuracy over GPS only
"Benefit"?
"Advantage"?
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I don't understand why you're asking. That's a perfectly normal usage.
Profits are not always monetary.
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Sorry, my dictionary must be broken then.
And Google's.
And pretty much the entire first page of search results.
But I'll take your word for it.
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Wow.
You've managed to convince me that you're an idiot.
Well done!
I doubt you'll profit from it.
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I'm just saying I've never heard it used in this way, and commenting on the results of my Google search. If that makes me an idiot, I'm not gonna lose much sleep over the name-calling. I've been called worse. 
Mark_Wallace wrote: I doubt you'll profit from it.
I don't think you're really proving your point with this one - to me that reads the same as "there's no money to be made from it", and it makes sense (again, to me) in this context.
But again...it could very well be a regional thing, and I'm not a native speaker. I'll keep an ear out for it.
And you know what? In hindsight, my response was rather dismissive of you, and I should know better. So let me take it back and apologize. ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) ?
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Annoyed and disheartened Hufflepuff takes uninitiated band for Lost Empire. (4, 3, 4)
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Lost the plot ? don't know why though 
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F**K the Clue ???
cheers,
Super
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Well, we clearly have no idea - so what was it?
And you are up again tomorrow!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Huff and Puff. Do you see it now?
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Annoyed
and disheartened Hufflepuff HUFFlePUFF
takes (holds)
Uninitiated band bAND
for Lost Empire.
HUFF AND PUFF.
No idea where the Lost Empire comes into it.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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OMG , this is the most weird complicated CCC I have seen.
"Takes" means replace "the Lost Empire" (LE) with the uninitiated band!!!
cheers,
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It doesn't seem so bad now I know the answer, but I think what threw me was I didn't expect so much of the answer to be plain text in the clue!
Plus "huff and puff" isn't an obvious phrase for annoyed 
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I'm reasonably glad I didn't get it, really. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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disheartened, (remove the heart (centre))
Lost Empire (LE)
huffLEPuff
It's the bit you need to remove, I'm guessing
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