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Recommendations on GasBuddy replacement? (lemmy.today)

submitted 1 week ago by unitedwithme@lemmy.today to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Title. I've used forever, suspected they're not great, but recently saw just how awful they truly are having partnered with Allstate and their data hoarding practices. The app hasn't been granted permissions but that doesn't stop them into uninstalled.

I need another foss or crowd-sourced fuel price app. A couple mentioned in online articles I can't find shit on like Fuelmap, Stationpass, etc. Nothing in F-Droid but auto mando? Doesn't quite fill the need.

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[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I gotcha. Over the life of using the app, it's saved me damn near 500, and that's odd I tracked it through the app which I didn't always do.

I take premium though, so when prices shot up above $6.30/gal, it was nice to see who hadn't jumped yet and save a little. Being that it went from ~$4 to $6.20-6.30, an extra $40/week in gas was killing me. That's over $150/mo and, honestly, money is tight with everything else bring high, so. Just feels good to not feel like it's money wasted. I know it's not much, but it males up for times I'm not so stingy with money.

[–] whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah I use e free so there’s a an even narrower range of places to go.

The answer is unfortunately: spend more of your time looking for deals.

You’ll probably have to go back to looking at either their website or one of the other websites before you get to running and plan your day based at least in part on that.