The NearBy scopes falls back to geo-ip based position estimates and caches last known positions. So even if the system-wide positioning engine is off, the scope is still able to do whatever it wants in terms of calling into remote geoip services or rely on cached position estimates. There is hardly anything we can do about it.
** Changed in: location-service (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1466676 Title: Switching off Location detection does not work as expected To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/location-service/+bug/1466676/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs