It turns out you can get a location just by scanning nearby wifi and cell tower signals!

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    4 hours ago

    I am aware of that but somehow expected that it still took more energy to receive until there are enough SATs available than to do a BLE scan. Just a gut feeling though and only receiving should have a bigger impact than I thought. Makes sense!