Can the gps on peoples account b showing wrong? As have had a few just lately saying they are not far from me but the gps says they are at their home location? They say it's because they not on the app or its its because they moved since made the account I thought if it shows the distance on gps it would b accurate? X |
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"Why would you be searching who is near to you? Meets are not allowed. "
I'm not I have had messages from people saying they are near but their gps says otherwise! One even insisting he works where I work! I dont belive him! And its creeping me out tbh! I just wondered if any one knew if the gps could show wrong? I'm not meeting anyone any time soon! X |
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I don’t think it’s related to gps.. if you look under personal details you enter your postcode.. for local searches.... so if someone alters their postcode they can look as though they are local... |
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As above; I have my postcode set to somewhere else so I show up as local to there. I don’t have my Gps on but if I did that would give away my true location.  |
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"As above; I have my postcode set to somewhere else so I show up as local to there. I don’t have my Gps on but if I did that would give away my true location. "
Yes this I what I thought these 2 people recently says they are 200 + miles and there gps says same thank you x |
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"It can also depend on if you are using a VPN or who your ISP is. My Internet geolocation often says we are in London, North West or Scotland - essentially miles from where live."
Now I'm lost lol x |
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"Can the gps on peoples account b showing wrong? As have had a few just lately saying they are not far from me but the gps says they are at their home location? They say it's because they not on the app or its its because they moved since made the account I thought if it shows the distance on gps it would b accurate? X"
I turn off my GPS location on my phone and all apps so my location on here is only what I type in.
If I set my location as Liverpool, that’s what it shows. But if I turned my GPS back on it would show a different distance xx |
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"Can the gps on peoples account b showing wrong? As have had a few just lately saying they are not far from me but the gps says they are at their home location? They say it's because they not on the app or its its because they moved since made the account I thought if it shows the distance on gps it would b accurate? X"
It is because the person hasn't allowed the site access to their location on their device I think. Or they don't have it switched on, on their device i.e. on the mobile app you can switch it on or off xx |
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"Can the gps on peoples account b showing wrong? As have had a few just lately saying they are not far from me but the gps says they are at their home location? They say it's because they not on the app or its its because they moved since made the account I thought if it shows the distance on gps it would b accurate? X
It is because the person hasn't allowed the site access to their location on their device I think. Or they don't have it switched on, on their device i.e. on the mobile app you can switch it on or off xx"
This.
If I don't have my location turned on or allow Fab access to my location it will show the last place I had it turned on, I may also need to refresh it.
So my GPS could still show me at home but in actual fact I'm 100 miles away in London. |
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By *sm265Woman
over a year ago
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I'm not sure how accurate the "who's near?" is, had someone message me recently who insisted that I was very close to where he was, but in actual fact I was almost 40 miles away (thankfully  ) |
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"If you use a VPN you can appear to be wherever in the world you want to be."
You are right. But using a VPN would be easy to spot as they are usually across the world |
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"As above; I have my postcode set to somewhere else so I show up as local to there. I don’t have my Gps on but if I did that would give away my true location.
Yes this I what I thought these 2 people recently says they are 200 + miles and there gps says same thank you x"
they might run a vpn like me, I can set it to different countries. I do not have GPS on though ever. |
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"has Several servers in Uk as well as different countries. "
The servers send the information not gather the location. The ping is from the satellites in orbit |
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"has Several servers in Uk as well as different countries.
The servers send the information not gather the location. The ping is from the satellites in orbit"
they hid your location as they are designed to do along with your IP (which is the locator to device) along with other stuff like site visits etc. all encrypted too. |
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"has Several servers in Uk as well as different countries.
The servers send the information not gather the location. The ping is from the satellites in orbit
they hid your location as they are designed to do along with your IP (which is the locator to device) along with other stuff like site visits etc. all encrypted too. "
That’s not what I said. I’m a media and data specialist so I’m very much a guru of these processes |
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Pretty pish here. I’m in Spain so need to use. Uk postcode which I think confuses people.
However, I allow location on here so it should in theory be ok... not so!
I get messages from all over the UK, not just Edinburgh, saying I’m showing as near to them. Anything between 2-10 miles mostly. If I do a near me search here, very few show up. Now this wasn’t always the case so don’t know what’s changed.
For the avoidance of doubt, I’m talking pre covid when this place was massively busy. I know a lot of ex pats have asked for us to be able to use non UK postcodes/areas as loads still subscribe (myself included) as it would be so much better |
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Should we have the search function disabled now? 
