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by 13of40 3279 days ago
> The responder will receive an approximation of your location, likely the closet cell tower

Are you saying the GPS they mandated in cell phones ten years ago, ostensibly just for this purpose, doesn't actually do its job most of the time?

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You can't depend on it because people turn them off. Hell, I leave mine off.
Sure, you can't depend on it, but I'd expect most people leave it on the default setting.