My Phone Thinks I’m in Dublin

[Noyka]

Yesterday it thought I was in BC wtf scrapple geo-location?

[agony bagony]

make sure you're not space-hopping

[zim]

yeah that's weird, maybe you have a bad app installed that's hijacking your location or something

[zim]

you should be able to look for recently used apps under your settings, might help you see if anything weird is going on

[Noyka]

Only ones i have used this week are a walking dead game rts (play with friends the game is horrible don’t play), hbo max, and a coloring game for my brother

No idea why it does this. My mom said rts servers but thats not how servers work…….

Now it says i am in kas vegas which is correct we shall see how long it is correct.

[agony bagony]

kas vegas, the pan-dimensional las vegas

there's your problem

[Noyka]

Vegas grime has infected the phone you are probably right!

[Mesarthim]

Do you use a vpn?

[Noyka]

Not on mobile, only on my laptop.

[Mesarthim]

Weird. Do you have antivirus installed? Some of them come with vpns now

[Noyka]

Not on mobile thats why im confused

[zim]

are you connecting to public wifi on your phone or laptop

[Noyka]

Nope i never do

Google says low gps signal but its a clear blue day

Maybe too many apps or something?

[zim]

when you say your phone thinks you're in x place, how are you seeing that information?

something is messing with your location services, could be weird provider issues, bad wifi, messed up location/time zone settings. apps don't generally set your location without asking you to confirm. possible your brother could have accidentally messed up settings?

[Noyka]

When i try to use gps

Ill check settings at the hotel

[Noyka]

I had a vpn i wasn’t aware of my brother activated it.

Still funny it thought i was everywhere haha

[Mesarthim]

not necessarily a bad thing. I usually keep mine on just to give that layer of encryption and to fuck with advertisers. still, every so often I have to turn it off if I want to actually get directions or something,

[Noyka]

Yeah def not a bad thing. Explsains the Korean youtube ads for sure.

[Noyka]

Google maps you can manually set your location as well so its not terrible.

Only thing some vpns can be sketchy so i wouldn’t depend on one I have not personally researched.