I currently use “The Transit App” for navigating by transit. How bad is that privacy wise? I know it tracks your location at least while you’re in the en route mode because it advertises that as part of its real time tracking system, and I’m torn on whether I’m okay with that given that I directly benefit from the improved real time data whenever someone else taking the same line is end route (you can see transit vehicles being tracked by another user’s app session vs data from the transit agency itself). Is there anything more shady going on with that app? Is there any way to tell whether it’s recording my motion sensors? Is the generic sounding name intentionally hiding that it’s made by the CIA or something?

  • dreaper@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    You want to keep your soul? Then go back to the old way of doing things. Using a paper map that shows all the routes. And to get bus schedule times, I’m sure they have something like Teleride that you can call or text. It’s what I do; considering I went back to a flip phone for the sake of my sanity.

    • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      If I lived in Japan with its perfect transit schedule, maybe. But in Vancouver the transit is so unreliable literally any advance schedule is useless especially if you need to have any type of connection on your route.