Nothing can stop the tower equipment manufacturer like Ericsson from knowing the location of your phone and cooperating with advertising or mobile tracking compainies to aggregate that data in useful ways. If you have a phone, people that want your location have it and there is nothing you can do.

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iamnothere 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

False. You can:

1) Leave the phone at home

2) Use a phone with a hardware toggle switch that physically kills power to the cell modem, or turn off the phone and put it in a tested Faraday bag

3) Conspire with other citizens to make such location tracking illegal and to enforce that law

I’m tired of privacy doomerism. You have options, use them.

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aydyn 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> If you have a phone, people that want your location have it and there is nothing you can do.

> False. You can: 1) Leave the phone at home

Then you dont have a phone, do you? Come on you are being pedantic for no reason.

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iamnothere 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Not all the time, no. But I can make calls over wifi and forward texts to myself. And nobody’s tracking me. Why would I always need the phone with me?

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tavavex 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

So people can give you a call even if you're not home? I mean, this has been the main selling point of mobile phones for over 30 years, and especially before smartphones became a thing. If you don't take your phone with you, you might as well wire in a landline and just use that.

	▲	iamnothere 9 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		You making a lot of calls in 2026? Messaging services seem to be more popular with people I know. I have a phone so I have options if I need to be reachable or reach someone immediately while out (rare), or for travel. And because some services, mostly banks, refuse to accept VOIP numbers but require a verified phone number.
	▲	thaumasiotes 9 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> So people can give you a call even if you're not home? I mean, this has been the main selling point of mobile phones for over 30 years, and especially before smartphones became a thing. It was the selling point of mobile phones before smartphones became a thing. It obviously hasn't been the main selling point of mobile phones since then.

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testing22321 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I do the same… and I don’t own a phone!

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sib 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>> Nothing can stop the tower equipment manufacturer like Ericsson from knowing the location of your phone

> False. You can: > 1) Leave the phone at home

If you're going to be pedantic, at least be pedantically correct. The tower (and carrier) would still know the location of your phone in that case. (It just wouldn't be with you.)

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antiframe 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Also, run an OS that doesn't allow every running process to read your GPS location. And allows you to turn off your cell modem.

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heraldgeezer 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So... Ericsson has a backdoor into every RAN and Core equipment they sell?