@kefa
Mudita Kompakt differers in the way it deals with GPS location data for privacy reasons.
- It has a receive-only GPS which means the device’s GPS chip only listens to satellites.
- It calculates your position locally on the device and does not transmit that data anywhere.
- This ensures that your location stays private, because there’s no automatic sending of coordinates to external servers.
- Since Mudita Kompakt is privacy-focused, it work this way: the GPS is purely a receiver, so your position is visible to you but not shared.
If you’ve been using this app on a standard smartphone, this probably means that it uses assisted or connected GPS.
- On most smartphones, GPS is not just receive-only. It often works with Assisted GPS (A-GPS), which uses:
- Cellular towers,
- Wi-Fi hotspots,
- Bluetooth beacons,
- And cloud services.
- This makes location fixes faster and more accurate, but it also means your device is transmitting data to external servers (Google, Apple, etc.), often continuously.
- Apps then use this data for maps, ride-hailing, advertising, geotagging, etc.
- Result: more convenience, but less privacy.
So, the app may not function as you are used to it functioning because of this.
Hopefully this makes sense.