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Did you know that potential attackers can pinpoint your location if they are in the same public place as you?
This really seems like complaining that a location enabled app that explicitly shares your location with other users is sharing your location with other users. That is 100% the purpose of the app to begin with!
Excuse me, but if they advertise that they don't give others your exact location (only a larger radius), I expect that to be true and that an extremist can't use a dating app to track down gay people to their home address.