It can help with location when you're on a device that doesn't have a GPS receiver. Like a laptop.

It might also help with initial positioning since it can take several seconds or minutes to get a GPS lock.

Edit: For anyone who want to contribute to BeaconDB there is NeoStumbler on F-Droid

Save a click. The movie is "I Love Boosters".

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_love_boosters

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30827810/

You're right. That's always the case when using ~~someone else's computer~~ the cloud.

Moxie addresses it in this blog post. https://confer.to/blog/2026/01/private-inference/

https://confer.to/