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by renewiltord 2075 days ago
How did the application function in the past? The other party would pre-approve you and then you could request location on-demand? Interesting.

I didn't even know of this app. I just have my location perma-shared with my friends.
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m-p-3 2075 days ago
You add them into your trusted contacts, and those contacts can request your current position on-demand. You can either accept, deny or it will auto-accept if left alone. You are always aware if a request was sent, nothing is done without your knowledge even after the fact.

With Google Maps you have to share no in-between.

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danepowell 2075 days ago
> The other party would pre-approve you and then you could request location on-demand?

Precisely, and you could set a timeout (5 minutes, 24 hours, whatever) to automatically provide the location unless you intervene to deny the request.

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renewiltord 2075 days ago
Interesting functionality. Thanks for sharing.

By the way, why doesn't the perma-share work for you? I totally get that it doesn't. Just curious what you feel is the difference. Is it that it's possible to know when it's being queried and to stop that? I guess I could see a use-case for that.

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