The developer put up more specific details: https://www.iceblock.app/android

The dev put up a post with more info, according to them it has more to do with anonymity and notifications: https://www.iceblock.app/android

The post is up: https://www.iceblock.app/android

Turns out it’s about the notifications not the location, though it still indirectly is about location since the notifications are geographically specific.

I’ve only got my family and friends to reference, but it breaks about 70/30 with the MAGA conservatives on Android/iPhone and 80/20 for the liberals/leftists preferring iPhones.

And of my family at least, I suspect a big part of that is the conservatives are not the tech savvy ones who go into a store, knowing what kind of device they want; they just go into their cell phone provider and get whatever is least expensive for a smartphone

TechCrunch did a traffic analysis: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/iceblock-an-app-for-anonymously-reporting-ice-sightings-goes-viral-overnight-after-bondi-criticism/

But if the user doesn’t create an account and the deviceID rotates frequently, is there any way to tie those coordinates at a specific time to a specific person in a large enough geographical area and provide notifications (also provided via on device only services)? That’s what it seems like the developer has said Apple facilitates better.

The also said they will have a more detailed post up July 2nd about android on their site.

See also: https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/01/iceblock-an-app-for-anonymously-reporting-ice-sightings-goes-viral-overnight-after-bondi-criticism/

“Apple keeps most of your location history on your device: the bits of information stored in the cloud are either end-to-end encrypted, meaning only you can decipher them, or anonymized. As such, the risk of having your location history compromised by a data breach, or by a request from law enforcement to Apple for this data, is greatly reduced.”

In this case they are anonymized. The service can tell what device is where but not what user that deviceID matches and those identifiers are rotated to make it harder to match that data up.

From: https://privacyinternational.org/guide-step/5537/guide-keeping-your-mobile-phones-location-history-private

At this point my understanding from other sources is that they can’t distribute via the android App Store in a way that uses location tracking and notifications but is still anonymous where they can with iOS because location services is device side only.

There’s a lot of great advice and reassurance in here already. It sounds like you’re doing all right to me too.

A more uncommon suggestion that fits in here is that we see evidence that reading to kids no matter the age, yes even this young has benefits later in life. Your local library may have a 1,000 books before kindergarten program (they are pretty common) and it’s never too early to enroll.

What the fuck is this shit?

Nakor upgraded from his magic bag.

/obscure?

Ah yes, wealthy people who love being seen at all the hot stuff in NYC are suddenly going to move somewhere else without the clout like Kansas City.

You can use it to pay a medieval plague doctor that will give you leech therapy. They will need to place the leeches at the base of your cylinder as well as any free hanging olive shaped objects attached to the cylinder to shrink it so your homemade fleshlight falls off-I mean so the m&m tube- I mean the Manny the mammoth toy falls off your dick-I mean ohhhh you touch my tra-la-la

At this point, the show is based on the 1st novella only.

I just finished a re-read and I didn’t get a sense that secunits had an agender appearance, this was after Martha Wells asked online to find out where a bunch of people got the idea that Murderbot was femme-androgynous so it was top of mind to look for in the books.

My general head cannon for the discrepancies especially with the additions is that the books are written by Murderbot as a record and it has admitted to being an unreliable narrator including glossing over things that it’s not interested in or doesn’t understand the value of. The show is more of a third-person perspective so it’s entirely possible some of what we are seeing was those moments that Murderbot didn’t see fit to include.

My 1st time through, All Systems Red really felt like half a book. It needed the 2nd book and boy did it ever deliver (for me).

That’s awesome! I’m curious about Thief and why you DNF’d it. No criticism, just curious about keeping it in my recommendations. It is a pretty slow burn and I’m curious if that was a factor.

Try this one; https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7zt7hAFFqfI&pp=ygUaV2hhdHMgd3Jvbmcgd2l0aCBqb2Ugcm9nYW4%3D