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submitted 7 months ago by Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I'm taking a long biking trip soon and want to share my live location with my boyfriend in case something happens. Any recommendations for privacy-focused apps that can accomplish this? I'm on Android, he's on iOS.

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[-] robotdna@toast.ooo 30 points 7 months ago

I started out with Owntracks. I found it to be unreasonably complex. I swapped to Traccar. It was much easier to get functional.

[-] robotdna@toast.ooo 13 points 7 months ago

I should note that my scenario was exactly the same. I wanted to share location with family. Additionally, Traccar supports temporary location share links for friends if you'd like. You'll need to self-host it- I personally set up the Traccar server inside kubernetes and used Traefik for reverse proxy and SSL, but this is not necessary.

[-] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 7 months ago

Self hosted is fine - I have a dev server I can toss it on. Thanks!

[-] michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago

The alternative to Traccar is Find My Device (FMD)

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