I haven’t had my gps turned ON for a couple of weeks atleast and still whenever I search for the weather, I get to know the weather of my exact location. None of my devices have their gps activated and yet theyre able to get my location. How is that?
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The location is derived from your wi-fi MAC address (a unique id of every wi-fi router), your IP address, and the ids of cell towers around you. When you GPS was on in the past Google recorded what was your wi-fi MAC address, your IP, and the ids of cell towers around you. Now even if GPS is not on they know the MAC, the IP, and the cell towers are associated with your location.
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