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		SiempreViernes 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has... Most people have mobile phones that need to roughly know your position as a technical necessity, why are you speaking like its 1990's?

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yencabulator 3 days ago | [–]

Not just the phone needing to know your location, your rough location has to be reported to a central server, because that's how incoming calls/texts are routed to the phone.

skeptic_ai 3 days ago | [–]

I can leave my phone at home and route SMS and voice via http to my real phone.

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