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bxparks ◴[11 Oct 25 23:45 UTC] No.45553791[source]▶

A lot of things on https://killedbygoogle.com/ . I used to use 30-40 Google products and services. I'm down to 3-4.

Google Picasa: Everything local, so fast, so good. I'm never going to give my photos to G Photos.

Google Hangouts: Can't keep track of all the Google chat apps. I use Signal now.

Google G Suite Legacy: It was supposed to be free forever. They killed it, tried to make me pay. I migrated out of Google.

Google Play Music: I had uploaded thousands of MP3 files there. They killed it. I won't waste my time uploading again.

Google Finance: Tracked my stocks and funds there. Then they killed it. Won't trust them with my data again.

Google NFC Wallet: They killed it. Then Apple launched the same thing, and took over.

Google Chromecast Audio: It did one thing, which is all I needed. Sold mine as soon as they announced they were killing it.

Google Chromecast: Wait, they killed Chromecast? I did not know that until I started writing this..

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1. bigthymer ◴[12 Oct 25 03:13 UTC] No.45554855[source]▶

>>45553791 #

I'm still upset that Google Maps no longer tracks my location. It was very useful to be able to go back and see how often and where I had gone.

Is there another app where I can store this locally?

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2. bxparks ◴[12 Oct 25 03:17 UTC] No.45554881[source]▶

>>45554855 (TP) #

Strava? :-) Half-joking, half-serious, I haven't used Strava in years, I don't remember all its capabilities.

Edit: Missed the "locally" part. Sorry no suggestions. Maybe Garmin has something?

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3. socalgal2 ◴[12 Oct 25 03:25 UTC] No.45554929[source]▶

>>45554855 (TP) #

Google Maps still tracks my location.

The difference is they no longer store the data on their servers, it's stored on your phone (iPhone/Android)

https://support.google.com/maps/answer/6258979

That way, they can't respond to requests for that data by governments as they don't have it.

I can look on my phone and see all the places I've been today/yesterday, etc

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4. sameline ◴[12 Oct 25 03:25 UTC] No.45554934[source]▶

>>45554855 (TP) #

Apple Maps added a Visited Places (beta) feature recently.

5. bapak ◴[12 Oct 25 05:08 UTC] No.45555417[source]▶

>>45554855 (TP) #

Arc and its free Arc Mini companion. iOS. Been using it since Facebook eclipsed Moves app. A decade later, it's still not as good as Moves.

6. iamacyborg ◴[12 Oct 25 07:07 UTC] No.45555967[source]▶

>>45554881 #

Nope, Garmin only tracks your location when you record an activity that uses gps, which is good, frankly.

7. serial_dev ◴[12 Oct 25 09:24 UTC] No.45556760[source]▶

>>45554855 (TP) #

I heard about dawarich, open source, didn’t have time to try it though or check the details... https://dawarich.app/

8. forever_frey ◴[12 Oct 25 10:23 UTC] No.45557031[source]▶

>>45554855 (TP) #

Check out Dawarich, it has an official iOS app and you can use a number of 3rd party mobile apps to track your data and then upload it to server: either ran on your own hardware (FOSS self-hosted) or to the Dawarich Cloud one: https://dawarich.app

Using it on daily basis

9. saagarjha ◴[12 Oct 25 10:56 UTC] No.45557202[source]▶

>>45554855 (TP) #

I use this free and extremely bare bones app made by a friend: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/max-where/id1579123291. It tracks your location constantly, has a basic viewer, and lets you export to CSV. That’s about it but it’s all I need.

10. bigthymer ◴[14 Oct 25 12:27 UTC] No.45579230[source]▶

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Is it just me or has the amount of data collected changed? Last I checked, the locally stored data just identifies known business locations that have been visited. In the past, when I clicked a business location in the app, it would show when I last visited. Google maps no longer does this. In the past, I could do a hike and see exactly how long I walked and how fast I went. However, this info is no longer collected to this degree.

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