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Oh really. Wow that's pretty amazing. I thought it worked by piggy-backing off the connection of nearby devices meaning that those nearby devices would still need to have an active network connection while near to your device. I didn't know that it would remember the location of a device and then upload that location later on.


It's like 50-100 bytes of data per device seen to cache, not exactly data cap shattering amounts :)

Timestamp + GPS coordinates + device ID is about what gets sent to the cloud for each device.




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