I think it could drain battery depending on what settings you tweak. However, I don’t have terrible battery drain. Here’s all of my settings that could be related:

With those settings, I get pretty frequent updates to my location. I do wonder about the call out that the update interval for locations is separate from others, I wonder if that applies?

Do you use persistent connection? Both myself and my partner use GOS and it works fine, and updates frequently. You might also be able to change the pull rate as well.

It uses http, and yes, it works perfectly on GrapheneOS.

I use Home Assistant for this. It works very well and the data is all local. It’s probably a bit heavy if you don’t use the other parts of home assistant though.

To address your first edit, yes, it’s a script, and yes, it did delete the site and the backups, as confirmed by the site creator. You can browse the data extracted on https://okstupid.lol/

This wasn’t “just a fun script”. The site, backups, and infrastructure were actually deleted.

Did you read the article, like at all? It would have told you the same thing:

As of this writing, WhiteDate, which Hoffmann described as a “Tinder for Nazis”; WhiteChild, a site that claimed to match white supremacists’ sperm and egg donors; and WhiteDeal, a sort-of Taskrabbit-esque labor marketplace for racists, are all offline.

The administrator of the three websites confirmed the hack on their social media accounts.

“They publicly delete all my websites while the audience rejoices. This is cyberterrorism,” the administrator wrote on X on Sunday, vowing repercussions.

The administrator also claimed that Root deleted their X account before it was restored.

I’ve heard that these tools aren’t 100% accurate, but your last point is valid.