• besselj@lemmy.ca
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    Safety concerns aside, you should trust your partner enough to not need to track them

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      If a partner demand they have it on to prove they’re not cheating, then they should be looking for a different partner.

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      Exactly. My girlfriend will disappear for an entire day and not come home until 10pm. I usually have no idea where she is or what she’s doing (mainly because I forget due to having ADHD), but I don’t worry about it because I know she’ll never cheat. How can a person even be with someone who they don’t trust? Without trust, there is no relationship IMO.

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      For me, knowing my spouse’s location is just convenient for knowing ETA without bothering her. It’s not really about trust at all

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        Same. We both follow each other and neither of us care. We mostly have it enabled for the “just in case” scenario that anything happens to one of us. We can make sure that we know of our last known location.

        I’ve also had her use it one time I was away from home in NYC. And I was too drunk to figure out which subway to take to get back to my hotel. So she walked me through step by step while on the phone with me. It fucking rocked.

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        Exactly my thought. It’s nothing to do with jealousy and just kind of convenient if you need to meet up or are seeing if they’re on their way home and can get dinner started or whatever.

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        I figure if my phone manufacturer and cell providers are tracking me all day, why not also my closest friends and family.

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      No they need therapy not another spouse. They shouldn’t have a spouse at all until they’ve fixed their own insecurities.

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    Of all the dystopian things, this is probably the most dystopian thing I’ve read lately.

    This is horrible.

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      Most people my age that I know have location tracking shared with SO’s. It’s considered a step in the relationship.

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    If your partner cant trust you not to cheat then work on your relasionship or end it. Dont do this shit.

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      This. If your partner is jealous, you’re not the problem. If they can’t work through it with you, walk.

      People with trust issues are exhausting. Make sure they’re worth it without losing yourself.

      Signed, Experienced

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      My wife always has my location. I regularly go out for hours on my motorcycle and I’ll tell her I’m going for a hour ride and get lost in the woods for 3. Years ago I had to call her to pick me up after a truck decided to go left in front of me and shattered my arm into 4 pieces. Caller her from the hospital bed high as fuck on morphine. She has my location so if I stop responding for hours she can make sure I didn’t wind up in a medical center LOL.

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        That is entirely different than suspecting you of cheating every moment she doesn’t have eyes on you.

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    The main reason my wife and I don’t have location sharing set up isn’t because of trust or lack thereof between each other, but because I don’t trust proprietary/commercial location-sharing services.

    I’ve been meaning to set up a self-hosted system (mainly because it seems like Home Assistant could do some neat automations with that info), but haven’t gotten around to it yet.

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    My wife and I have had our location shared with each other for years, but it’s not a “Are they cheating?” thing. I have been married for 14 years and never wonder if my wife is cheating on me. It’s just incredibly useful for seeing how far away one of us is from home to do things like plan dinner prep times, know where to look for a lost phone, etc. If you can’t trust your SO, there is something wrong that you need to address and micro-managing where they are is toxic.

    Also, do yourself a favor and use something open source and/or self hosted. Home Assistant, for example, has the ability to track location data for iOS and Android devices and pin that location to a map. Don’t give your location data to corporations to be used for data mining.

    Call me old fashioned, but I put it in the same bucket as a prenup: If you’re always prepping your heart and mind for a split, you’ll always have one foot out the door. Not everyone will agree with me, but that’s how I feel and it’s why I don’t have one. Find yourself someone who is ride or die, if you are looking for a lifetime partner. Don’t settle for someone you can’t trust with your life.

    That said, not everyone is looking for monogamy for the rest of their life, either, and that’s OK, too.

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      This is like, the opposite of old-fashioned. Calling your wife when you’re on the way home is old-fashioned.

      This article is the first time I’m actually hearing about this idea because it never even occurred to me as something people would actually want to do. I frankly don’t see the point of this nonsense. I would much rather talk to my wife on the phone and communicate with her about plans. It’s much more human and normal, and facilitates good communication habits. It takes 2 minutes to give my wife a call and, you know what, I get to talk to my wife! We don’t need technology invading absolutely every aspect of our lives. We don’t need to be constantly plugged in and attached to our phones at the hip.

      It also has other downsides, like making it hard to surprise your partner, constant battery drain from the constant location chatter, etc. In fact, it seems like all downside with no actual benefit (setting aside the trust stuff, because it’s pretty irrelevant either way).

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        I get where you’re coming from, but I loathe talking on the phone. I love talking to my wife, but we do that when sitting down for coffee and breakfast in the morning.

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    if you believe the only reason your partner isn’t cheating is that you’d find out via location share; what the fuck is the point?

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      There’s always gps spoofing via debug mode too. So it’s not like sharing gps is even reliable

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    Jesus fuck, what did people do with their spouses and kids before phones? Trust them?

    Sounds unlikely.

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    I can’t believe the number of people in here with paranoia and shitty relationships that can’t communicate with their “partner”

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      My wife only asked me to ‘follow’ her with location sharing because there was a creepy dude in the area who was approaching women. Otherwise we trust each other enough and actually communicate about the things we do. Plus we don’t cheat on each other - there’s enough stress in life without adding to it lol.

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    “safety is certainly a big part of the appeal for many users – so I allow the app to alert him each time I reach my front door.” I’m finding that people are irrationally paranoid these days. They see random acts of violence in the news and think it might happen to them but its so statistically unlikely given these are already unlikely events and these people usually middle class people living in nice areas.

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      Humans are awful at accessing risk and chance, one of the reasons casinos and lotteries thrive.

      Look at fear of flying for an example, all statistics say you are many many many times over more likely to get into a car accident on your way to the airport, than during the flight. Even when the ride to the airport is usually short and the flight very long. Yet people are afraid of flying, but not going by car. By percentage, there are of course those, rightly so, afraid of cars as well.

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    After 30 years of marriage, my wife floated the idea of turning this on. I looked at her like she had two heads.

    Why would anyone be willfully surveilled? You know its not just your partner that has access to that data when you have location services enabled.

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      lol do you think your phone isn’t normally recording your your location data even without this feature turned on?

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          Made worse, like they had the info before but now they really have it? They always have it, that’s it. If you’re concerned about privacy drop the phone, otherwise it’s a bullshit argument.

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            You think the toggle literally does nothing? That’s insane. Third parties don’t exist? Extra surveillance doesnt exist? You are fucking ignorant.

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    Me and my partner share locations. Never once have we done this. It’s purely a logistical thing. 10x faster to check someone’s location when you’re supposed to meet them instead of testing them “wya”.

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      Yeah, exactly. So great to be able to say, oh, she’s about 15 minutes away, so I’ll start making dinner. Much easier and safer than texting while driving, too.

      We originally set it up so she could make sure I wasn’t laying in a ditch somewhere from a cycling crash.

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      Same. I don’t even recall setting it up until I stumbled on it one day and could track my wife. I pulled a few pranks until I revealed my hand but we’ve never turned it off. There’s nothing malicious about it and we’re both happy to keep it on.

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      It’s also really great when someone is driving to pick you up. You can see how far out they are, and be ready when they arrive.