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This kind of stuff makes me a little uncomfortable. I can imagine someone being in a situation (abusive relationship maybe?) where they are compelled to share this information. Even under normal circumstances it seems a little creepy, but maybe that's just me.

Not saying it's wrong to provide the service or anything like that, just wondering about how it could effect things.

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I can imagine someone being in a situation (abusive relationship maybe?) where they are compelled to share this information.

Did you see this part?:

Instead of having your approximate location detected and shared automatically, you can manually set your location for elsewhere

No, I didn't. And that kind of eliminates those concerns a bit.

Apologies for my lack of reading-all-the-way-throughness

Why not include a cloaking/misdirection feature?

I believe I read something about manual entry of location

Ah yes. Clearly I need to work on my skimming skills :-)

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